Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 63
As quickly as he could, and before the Lion had time to close his mouth again, the man withdrew his arm, and, finding himself free, he at once hastened down the hill with his wife.
Who acts: Lion, man · What happens: have, close, withdraw, find, hasten · To what, where: mouth, arm, Lion, hill
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, man), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 quickly | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 34 hastened | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 could | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hastened | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hastened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hastened | cc |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hastened | advcl |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 close | mark |
| 14 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 close | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 close | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 withdrew | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 withdrew | nsubj |
| 21 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 withdrew | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 finding | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 finding | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 finding | punct |
| 27 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 withdrew | advcl |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 finding | obj |
| 29 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 finding | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hastened | nsubj |
| 32 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 34 hastened | mark |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 hastened | advmod |
| 34 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 hill | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hill | det |
| 37 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hastened | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 wife | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wife | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hill | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Lion | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | Lion's mouth | again | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | |||
| 3 | withdraw | past | the man | Lion's arm | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | the man not said here | Lion | free property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 5 | hasten | could | Lion | the hill with Lion's wife | once, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory |
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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