--- title: The lion gets well, and one day was eating a buffalo he had killed. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The lion gets well, and one day was eating a buffalo he had killed. Who acts: lion, buffalo. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/17/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/) / 17 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 17 The lion gets well, and one day was eating a buffalo he had killed. **Who acts:** lion, buffalo · **What happens:** get, eat, kill · **To what, where:** buffalo, bone This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, buffalo), 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:pg7128:7:17 # text = The lion gets well, and one day was eating a buffalo he had killed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | the lion | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **eat** | past · progressive | the lion *not said here* | a buffalo | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Patient | | 3 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | a buffalo *not said here* | bone | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/18/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)