Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 23
These remarks made the Lion more angry than ever, and he moved up and down on the brink of the tank, glaring fiercely at his own reflection in the water, and growling and showing his teeth at it.
Who acts: remarks, remark · What happens: make, move up, growl, show · To what, where: Lion, brink, teeth, water
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 (remarks, remark), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 remarks | det |
| 2 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 angry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 moved | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 moved | nsubj |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 moved | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 down | cc |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 up | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 brink | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brink | det |
| 19 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moved | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tank | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tank | det |
| 22 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brink | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 glaring | punct |
| 24 | glaring | glaring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tank | amod |
| 25 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 24 glaring | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 reflection | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 reflection | amod |
| 29 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glaring | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reflection | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 growling | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 growling | cc |
| 35 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 showing | cc |
| 37 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 growling | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 39 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 showing | obj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 showing | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this remarks | the Lion | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lion=Product | |||
| 2 | move up | past | remark | the brink of the tank | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on brink=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | growl | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | show | gerund | Hare's teeth | water | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
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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