Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 18

“What kind of strange animal can this be which has entered my den, and is waiting to cook and eat me on my return; it must certainly be a very fierce and terrible creature.”

Who acts: kind, my · What happens: enter, wait, cook, eat, be, return · To what, where: kind, Father, return, fierce creature

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 (kind, my), 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	_	12 entered	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 kind	det
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 entered	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 entered	aux:pass
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 entered	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 den	nmod:poss
14	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 waiting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 waiting	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 waiting	aux
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 entered	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cook	mark
20	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 waiting	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cook	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 return	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 return	nmod:poss
26	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 creature	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 creature	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 creature	aux
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	37 creature	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 creature	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 creature	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 fierce	advmod
34	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 creature	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 terrible	cc
36	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fierce	conj
37	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 entered	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter in a quote	can · perfect · passive		what kind of strange animal		this nsubj; which nsubj:pass; my den obj	tree rules
2	wait in a quote	present · progressive					tree rules
3	cook in a quote	to-infinitive					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	eat in a quote	infinitive		Father	my return		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	is a in a quote	must	kind	a fierce creature		certainly property	tree rules
6	return in a quote		my				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 18