Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 76
Then he thought of his tiger: and the tiger and his wife came to him and said, "Why are you so sad?"
Who acts: son, tiger, you · What happens: think, come, say, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, tiger, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tiger | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tiger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tiger | det |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tiger | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sad | punct |
| 21 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 sad | advmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sad | cop |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 sad | nsubj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 sad | advmod |
| 25 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 sad | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | son | then | of son's tiger | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | the tiger and son's wife | son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | sad property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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