Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 19
Suddenly, to his surprise and alarm, the Lion opened its mouth, and asked him what he was doing there.
Who acts: Lion, boy · What happens: open, ask, do, surprise · To what, where: mouth, surprise, boy
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, boy), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 opened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 alarm | cc |
| 7 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprise | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprise | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 doing | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 doing | aux |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 asked | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 doing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Lion | alarm's mouth | boy's surprise and alarm | suddenly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to surprise=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Lion not said here | boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | boy | there | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | surprise | boy | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: 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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