Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 2

They were both very fine, well-grown animals, and they used to prey upon all the smaller beasts in that part of the country; until at last they became so powerful that no other animal was safe from their clutches, and the wild beasts of the neighbourhood lived in a continual state of terror.

Who acts: rocks, other animal, wild beasts · What happens: be, grow, use, become, live, clutch · To what, where: prey, last, clutches, continual state

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 (rocks, other animal, wild beasts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
3	both	both	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 animals	punct
7	well	well	INTJ	_	10 animals	discourse
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 animals	amod
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fine	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 prey	mark
16	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 beasts	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 beasts	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beasts	det
20	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 beasts	amod
21	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 prey	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 part	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 part	det
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beasts	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 country	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 country	det
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 part	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 became	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 became	mark
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 became	obl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 became	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 used	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 powerful	advmod
35	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 became	xcomp
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 safe	mark
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 animal	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 animal	amod
39	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 safe	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 safe	cop
41	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 powerful	advcl
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 clutches	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 clutches	nmod:poss
44	clutches	clutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 safe	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 lived	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 lived	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 beasts	det
48	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 beasts	amod
49	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 lived	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 neighbourhood	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 neighbourhood	det
52	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 beasts	nmod
53	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	parataxis
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 state	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 state	det
56	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 state	amod
57	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 lived	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 terror	case
59	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 state	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	rocks = rock			grown animals conj; both, fine property	tree rules
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	past	rocks = rock	prey		upon all smaller beasts in that part of the country	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient
4	become	past	rocks = rock		last	powerful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	no other animal		rocks's clutches	safe property	tree rules
6	live	past	the wild beasts of the neighbourhood		a continual state of terror		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location
7	clutch		rocks = rock				nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 2