Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 43
She struggled violently, trying to extricate herself, but all in vain.
Who acts: Lioness · What happens: struggle, try, extricate · To what, where: Lioness
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struggled | nsubj |
| 2 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 2 struggled | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 struggled | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 extricate | mark |
| 7 | extricate | extricate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 extricate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vain | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 vain | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 vain | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 vain | case |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 struggled | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | Lioness | violently property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | Lioness not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | extricate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lioness not said here | Lioness | tree rules |
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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