Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 45
When he was tired of this he went off home very pleased with himself, and the Lioness, being unable to free herself from the trap she was in, shortly afterwards starved to death.
Who acts: Hare, Lioness · What happens: be, go off, starve · To what, where: trap, 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 (Hare, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 tired | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 went | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 pleased | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lioness | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Lioness | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lioness | det |
| 18 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unable | punct |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 unable | cop |
| 21 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Lioness | amod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 free | mark |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 unable | xcomp |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 unable | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 trap | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trap | det |
| 27 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 unable | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 in | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 in | cop |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 trap | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 starved | punct |
| 32 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 34 starved | advmod |
| 33 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 34 starved | advmod |
| 34 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Lioness | acl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 starved | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hare | the Lioness conj; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | Hare | of this; home, pleased property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the trap | Lioness obl; free, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Lioness | the trap not said here | in property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | starve | participle | the Lioness not said here | to death; afterwards, shortly property | 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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