Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 24
Fortunately for me, he hadn’t seen me, so I thought the best thing I could do was to make off as fast as I could, in order to avoid being eaten.”
Who acts: Tiger, I, best thing · What happens: not see, think, do, be, avoid, eat · To what, where: me, best thing · 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 (Tiger, I, best thing), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Fortunately | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortunately | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 make | compound:prt |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 make | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fast | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 avoid | punct |
| 30 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 avoid | mark |
| 31 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 in | fixed |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 avoid | mark |
| 33 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 make | advcl |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 eaten | aux:pass |
| 35 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 avoid | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | Tiger | me | fortunately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could | I | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the best thing | fast, make property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | avoid | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | gerund · passive | the best thing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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