Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 11
Accordingly Mr. Jackal went up on the roof, while his family settled down to sleep in the snuggest corner of the Tiger’s den.
Who acts: Jackal, family · What happens: go up, settle down, sleep · To what, where: roof, snuggest corner
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jackal, family), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jackal | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 roof | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 settled | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 settled | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 family | nmod:poss |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 settled | nsubj |
| 13 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 settled | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 settled | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 corner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 corner | det |
| 19 | snuggest | snug | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 corner | amod |
| 20 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 den | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tiger | det |
| 23 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 den | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Tiger | case |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 corner | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Jackal Mr. | the roof | accordingly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | settle down | past | Tiger's family | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Tiger's family not said here | the snuggest corner of the Tiger's den | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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