Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 61
On hearing this the Lion was so tickled that he could not refrain from laughing.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: hear, tickle, not refrain, laugh · To what, where: this
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tickled | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tickled | aux:pass |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 tickled | advmod |
| 8 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 refrain | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 refrain | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 refrain | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 refrain | advmod |
| 13 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tickled | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 laughing | mark |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 refrain | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tickled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | the Lion obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tickle | past · passive | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | not refrain | could | Lion | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | Lion not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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