Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 20
The water was very smooth, and on the clear surface he saw his own head reflected.
Who acts: water, Hare, own head · What happens: be, see, reflect · To what, where: clear surface · 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 (water, Hare, own head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smooth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smooth | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 smooth | advmod |
| 5 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 surface | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 surface | det |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 surface | amod |
| 11 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smooth | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reflected | nsubj |
| 17 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the water | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hare | the clear surface | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reflect | past | Hare's own head | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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