Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 37
Without a moment’s hesitation he turned about and fled precipitately into the depths of the forest.
Who acts: Tiger, moment · What happens: turn about, flee, hesitate · To what, where: depths
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, moment), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 hesitation | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitation | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 5 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fled | cc |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 11 | precipitately | precipitately | ADV | _ | 10 fled | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 depths | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn about | past | Tiger | without a moment's hesitation; about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | Tiger not said here | the depths of the forest | precipitately property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into depth=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hesitate | a moment | nom hesitation «cognition 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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