Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 19
So without waiting to investigate the matter any further, he turned tail and ran off as fast as he could through the forest.
Who acts: animal · What happens: wait, investigate, turn, run off · To what, where: matter, tail
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 (animal), 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 | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 2 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 3 waiting | mark |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turned | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 investigate | mark |
| 5 | investigate | investigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waiting | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 investigate | obj |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 further | advmod |
| 9 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 investigate | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 fast | advmod |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ran | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fast | advcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 could | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | animal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | investigate | to-infinitive | animal not said here | the matter | further property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | animal | tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run off | past | animal not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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