Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 33
He soon came across her stalking up and down near her den, very much perturbed at the disappearance of her lord and master.
Who acts: Hare, lord · What happens: come, stalk, perturb, disappear · To what, where: den, disappearance
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, lord), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | stalking | stalk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 stalking | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 down | cc |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 up | conj |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 den | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 den | nmod:poss |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stalking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 perturbed | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 perturbed | advmod |
| 16 | perturbed | perturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 disappearance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 disappearance | det |
| 19 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perturbed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lord | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lord | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappearance | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 master | cc |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lord | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hare | across Lioness; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stalk | gerund | Hare not said here | Lioness's den | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent near den=Location | ||||
| 3 | perturb | participle | Hare not said here | the disappearance of Lioness's lord and master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | disappear | Lioness's lord and master | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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