Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 12
The Tiger was rather surprised at hearing this, but being very hungry he proceeded to scrape out his own eye and eat it up.
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: be, hear, proceed, scrape out, eat up · To what, where: this, own eye, eye
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hungry | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hungry | cc |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hungry | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | advmod |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proceeded | nsubj |
| 15 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hungry | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 scrape | mark |
| 17 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 proceeded | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 scrape | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eye | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eye | amod |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scrape | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scrape | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 eat | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tiger | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Tiger not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | the Tiger not said here | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | proceed | past | Tiger | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | scrape out | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | Tiger's own eye | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat up | present | Tiger not said here | eye | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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