Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 40
This impudence so enraged the Lioness that she sprang towards the Hare and endeavoured to seize him; but he eluded her and galloped off down the hill hotly pursued by the angry beast.
Who acts: impudence, Hare · What happens: enrage, spring, endeavour, seize, elude, gallop off · To what, where: Lioness, Hare, impudence, hill
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 (impudence, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 impudence | det |
| 2 | impudence | impudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enraged | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 enraged | advmod |
| 4 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lioness | det |
| 6 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enraged | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sprang | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sprang | nsubj |
| 9 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enraged | advcl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 Hare | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sprang | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 endeavoured | cc |
| 14 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprang | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seize | mark |
| 16 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seize | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 eluded | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 eluded | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eluded | nsubj |
| 21 | eluded | elude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enraged | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eluded | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 galloped | cc |
| 24 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eluded | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 galloped | compound:prt |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 hill | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hill | det |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 galloped | obl |
| 29 | hotly | hotly | ADV | _ | 30 pursued | advmod |
| 30 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hill | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 beast | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beast | det |
| 33 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beast | amod |
| 34 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pursued | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past | this impudence | the Lioness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lioness=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | impudence | towards the Hare | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hare=Destination | ||||
| 3 | endeavour | past | impudence not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seize | to-infinitive | impudence not said here | Hare | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | elude | past | Hare | impudence | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location | ||||
| 6 | gallop off | past | Hare not said here | the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | pursue | participle | the hill not said here | by the angry beast; hotly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by beast=Trajectory |
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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