Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 40

So saying, he opened his mouth, and gave forth a series of fearful roars; and in a few minutes the whole jungle seemed to be full of Tigers, hastening up from all directions.

Who acts: Tiger, whole jungle · What happens: say, open, give, seem, be, hasten up · To what, where: mouth, series, directions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, whole jungle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 opened	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 gave	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 series	det
13	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 roars	case
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 roars	amod
16	roars	roar	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 series	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seemed	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 minutes	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 minutes	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 minutes	amod
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seemed	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 jungle	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 jungle	amod
25	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 full	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 full	cop
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Tigers	case
31	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hastening	punct
33	hastening	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 seemed	xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 hastening	compound:prt
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 directions	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 directions	det
37	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hastening	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Tiger not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	open	past	Tiger	Tiger's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	give	past	Tiger not said here	a series of fearful roars			forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Theme
4	seem	past	the whole jungle			minute		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	is	to-infinitive	the whole jungle not said here				of Tigers; full property	tree rules
6	hasten up	gerund	the whole jungle not said here		all directions			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from direction=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 40

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 40