Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 19
So saying he moved on one side, and the Lion, stalking to the edge, peered down into the tank.
Who acts: Hare, Lion · What happens: say, move, stalk, peer down · To what, where: one side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Lion), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 moved | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 peered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 peered | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 peered | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stalking | punct |
| 13 | stalking | stalk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Lion | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 edge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edge | det |
| 16 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stalking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 peered | punct |
| 18 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 peered | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 tank | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tank | det |
| 22 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hare not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | move | past | Hare | one side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stalk | gerund | the Lion not said here | to the edge | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | peer down | past | the Lion | into the tank; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into tank=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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