--- title: "I have had a thorn in my foot for twelve years," answered the tiger… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "I have had a thorn in my foot for twelve years," answered the tiger, "and it hurts me so; that is why I roar." Who acts: tiger, that. 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/pg7128/7/84/) [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/) / 84 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 84 "I have had a thorn in my foot for twelve years," answered the tiger, "and it hurts me so; that is why I roar." **Who acts:** tiger, that · **What happens:** have, answer, hurt, be, roar · **To what, where:** thorn, foot, tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (tiger, that), 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:pg7128:7:84 # text = "I have had a thorn in my foot for twelve years," answered the tiger, "and it hurts me so; that is why I roar." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 parataxis _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 roar roar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the tiger *= tiger* | a thorn | | my foot | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Patient | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the tiger | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | tiger | the tiger *= tiger* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **roar** *in a quote* | present | the tiger *= tiger* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/85/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)