Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 15
“They are very hungry, and getting impatient for their supper,” was the reply.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, get · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 reply | csubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 getting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 getting | cc |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hungry | conj |
| 9 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 getting | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 supper | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 supper | nmod:poss |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impatient | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reply | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | children = child | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | gerund | children = child not said here | impatient property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | the reply | 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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