Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 4

After a while they came to the edge of a forest, and having travelled for some little distance into the thickest part of the wood, they arrived all of a sudden at a Tiger’s den.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: come, travell, arrive · To what, where: edge, thickest part, all, den

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 (dogs), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 travelled	cc
14	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 travelled	aux
15	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 came	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 distance	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 distance	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distance	amod
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travelled	obl
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 part	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 part	det
22	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 part	amod
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travelled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 wood	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 arrived	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 arrived	nsubj
29	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 arrived	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sudden	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sudden	det
33	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 all	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	38 den	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Tiger	det
36	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 den	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 Tiger	case
38	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 arrived	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	dogs = dog		the edge of a forest	while		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
2	travell	gerund · perfect	dogs = dog not said here		the thickest part of the wood		for some little distance	tree rules
3	arrive	past	dogs = dog	all of a sudden	a Tiger's den			tree rules

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 4

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 4