Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 16
The foolish Tiger on hearing this proceeded to scrape out his other eye and eat that.
Who acts: foolish Tiger, this · What happens: hear, proceed, scrape out, eat · To what, where: this, other eye, that, foolish Tiger
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 (foolish Tiger, this), 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 | 3 Tiger | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tiger | amod |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | mark |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Tiger | acl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hearing | obj |
| 7 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hearing | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 scrape | mark |
| 9 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 proceeded | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 scrape | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eye | amod |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scrape | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scrape | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tiger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the foolish Tiger not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | proceed | participle | this not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | scrape out | to-infinitive | this not said here | Tiger's other eye | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | this not said here | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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