--- title: Now when the tiger sobbed and sighed and wept and swore, the pious B… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Now when the tiger sobbed and sighed and wept and swore, the pious Brahman's heart softened, and at last he consented to open the door of the cage. Who acts: tiger, heart. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/88/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/) / 88 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 88 Now when the tiger sobbed and sighed and wept and swore, the pious Brahman's heart softened, and at last he consented to open the door of the cage. **Who acts:** tiger, heart · **What happens:** sob, sigh, weep, swear, soften, consent · **To what, where:** last, door This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, heart), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:13:88 # text = Now when the tiger sobbed and sighed and wept and swore, the pious Brahman's heart softened, and at last he consented to open the door of the cage. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sobbed sob VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 pious pious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Brahman Brahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 softened soften VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sob** | past | the tiger | | | | now | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sigh** | past | the tiger *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **weep** | past | the tiger *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swear** | past | the tiger *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **soften** | past | the pious Brahman's heart | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **consent** | past | heart | | | last | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **open** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | the door of the cage | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/89/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)