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Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 21

So the Hare lighted a fire just in front of the Tiger, and when it was blazing up he kept putting the sticks nearer and nearer the Tiger, so that the Tiger was obliged to keep edging further and further away, when all of a sudden he toppled over backwards into the gulf behind.

Who acts: fire, Tiger, all · What happens: light, blaze up, keep, put, oblige, edge · To what, where: Hare, front, sticks, Tiger, gulf

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 (fire, Tiger, all), 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

advmoddetobl:unmarkeddetobjadvmodcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctccadvmodnsubjauxadvclcompound:prtnsubjparataxisxcompdetobjxcompccconjdetobjpunctadvmodmarkdetnsubj:passaux:passconjmarkadvclxcompadvmodccconjadvmodpunctadvmodnsubjcasedetnmodnsubjconjcompound:prtadvmodcasedetobladvmodpunctrootSoADVtheDETHarePROPNlightedVERBaDETfireNOUNjustADVinADPfrontNOUNofADPtheDETTigerPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVitPRONwasAUXblazingVERBupADPhePRONkeptVERBputtingVERBtheDETsticksNOUNnearerADJandCCONJnearerADJtheDETTigerPROPN,PUNCTsoADVthatSCONJtheDETTigerPROPNwasAUXobligedVERBtoPARTkeepVERBedgingVERBfurtherADVandCCONJfurtherADVawayADV,PUNCTwhenADVallDETofADPaDETsuddenADJhePRONtoppledVERBoverADPbackwardsADVintoADPtheDETgulfNOUNbehindADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 lightedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Haredet
3HareHarePROPNNumber=Sing4 lightedobl:unmarked
4lightedlightVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 firedet
6firefireNOUNNumber=Sing4 lightedobj
7justjustADV_9 frontadvmod
8ininADP_9 frontcase
9frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing4 lightedobl
10ofofADP_12 Tigercase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Tigerdet
12TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing9 frontnmod
13,,PUNCT_21 keptpunct
14andandCCONJ_21 keptcc
15whenwhenADVPronType=Int18 blazingadvmod
16ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 blazingnsubj
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 blazingaux
18blazingblazeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 keptadvcl
19upupADP_18 blazingcompound:prt
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 keptnsubj
21keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lightedparataxis
22puttingputVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 keptxcomp
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 sticksdet
24sticksstickNOUNNumber=Plur22 puttingobj
25nearernearADJDegree=Cmp22 puttingxcomp
26andandCCONJ_27 nearercc
27nearernearADJDegree=Cmp25 nearerconj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Tigerdet
29TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing27 nearerobj
30,,PUNCT_36 obligedpunct
31sosoADV_36 obligedadvmod
32thatthatSCONJ_36 obligedmark
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Tigerdet
34TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing36 obligednsubj:pass
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 obligedaux:pass
36obligedobligeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 keptconj
37totoPART_38 keepmark
38keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf36 obligedadvcl
39edgingedgeVERBVerbForm=Ger38 keepxcomp
40furtherfarADVDegree=Cmp39 edgingadvmod
41andandCCONJ_42 furthercc
42furtherfarADVDegree=Cmp40 furtherconj
43awayawayADV_42 furtheradvmod
44,,PUNCT_51 toppledpunct
45whenwhenADVPronType=Int51 toppledadvmod
46allallDETPronType=Tot51 topplednsubj
47ofofADP_49 suddencase
48aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art49 suddendet
49suddensuddenADJDegree=Pos46 allnmod
50hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs51 topplednsubj
51toppledtoppleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 keptconj
52overoverADP_51 toppledcompound:prt
53backwardsbackwardsADV_51 toppledadvmod
54intointoADP_56 gulfcase
55thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art56 gulfdet
56gulfgulfNOUNNumber=Sing51 toppledobl
57behindbehindADV_56 gulfadvmod
58..PUNCT_4 lightedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lightparticiplethe Harefront of the Tigera fire objvn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2blaze uppast · progressivefirevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3keeppastTigertree rules
4putgerundTiger not said herethe sticksnear propertyvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stick=Goal
5obligepast · passivethe Tigervn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6keepto-infinitivetree rules
7edgegerundfar propertyvn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
8topple overpastall of a suddenthe gulfTiger nsubj; backwards propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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