Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 36
The Lioness took no notice of the Hare, except to growl at him in an angry manner, and to lash her sides with her tail.
Who acts: Lioness · What happens: take, growl, lash, notice · To what, where: notice, angry manner, sides, Hare
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 (Lioness), 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 Lioness | det |
| 2 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 notice | det |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hare | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hare | det |
| 8 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 growl | punct |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 growl | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 growl | mark |
| 12 | growl | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 growl | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 manner | amod |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 growl | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lash | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lash | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lash | mark |
| 22 | lash | lash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sides | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lash | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 tail | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tail | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lash | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Lioness | no notice of the Hare | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | growl | to-infinitive | the Lioness not said here | a angry manner | at Hare | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lash | to-infinitive | Lioness's sides | with Lioness's tail | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Destination with tail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | notice | the Hare | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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