Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 31
As they came nearer to the den, the Tiger grew more and more timorous, and would only advance very slowly, ready to take flight at any moment.
Who acts: people, Tiger · What happens: come, grow, advance, take · To what, where: flight
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 (people, Tiger), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 den | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 den | det |
| 7 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nearer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tiger | det |
| 10 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 timorous | cc |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 timorous | advmod |
| 15 | timorous | timorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 more | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advance | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advance | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 advance | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 advance | advmod |
| 20 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 grew | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 slowly | advmod |
| 22 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 advance | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 advance | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ready | xcomp |
| 27 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 moment | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | people | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the Tiger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | advance | would | the Tiger not said here | slowly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | flight | moment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=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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