The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 19
Then the tiger uttered a terrific growl which was like the roar of an earthquake, and prepared to spring.
Who acts: tiger, terrific growl · What happens: utter, be, prepare · To what, where: terrific growl
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, terrific growl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 uttered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tiger | det |
| 3 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 growl | det |
| 6 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 growl | amod |
| 7 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 roar | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 roar | cop |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 roar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roar | det |
| 12 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 growl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 earthquake | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 earthquake | det |
| 15 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roar | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prepared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prepared | cc |
| 18 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 uttered | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepared | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the tiger | a terrific growl | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent growl=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | a terrific growl | like the roar; of a earthquake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare | participle | spring | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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