Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 5

The tiger is not on fire: its orange stripes seem to glow like flames in the dark forest, so it looks powerful and dangerous.

Who acts: tiger, orange stripes · What happens: not be, seem, glow, look · To what, where: fire, dark forest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, orange stripes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fire	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fire	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fire	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 seem	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stripes	nmod:poss
9	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stripes	amod
10	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seem	nsubj
11	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fire	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 glow	mark
13	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seem	xcomp
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 flames	case
15	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 glow	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forest	amod
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glow	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looks	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 looks	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looks	nsubj
23	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seem	conj
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looks	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dangerous	cc
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 powerful	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fire	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the tiger	fire		tree rules
2	seem	present	tiger's orange stripes			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	glow	to-infinitive	tiger's orange stripes not said here	the dark forest	like flames	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
4	look	present	tiger		powerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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