Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 40
“Who are you?” said the Lion in a gruff voice; “and what do you want?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, want · To what, where: gruff voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | gruff | gruff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 want | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 want | obj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 want | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a gruff voice | the Lion nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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