Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 22
You see how fierce he is looking; please be careful not to start fighting with him.”
Who acts: You, Hare · What happens: see, look, be, not start, not fight · 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 (You, Hare), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fierce | advmod |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 see | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 careful | discourse |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 careful | cop |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 start | advcl |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 start | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 start | mark |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | conj |
| 15 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 start | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fighting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | fierce property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | Hare | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not start | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not fight | gerund | You not said here | with Hare | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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