Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 25
The Tiger was afraid to open his mouth to reply, and all he could do was to growl, “M—m—m——”
Who acts: Tiger, all · What happens: be, open, reply, do · To what, where: mouth
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, 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
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 | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reply | mark |
| 10 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 open | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 growl | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 growl | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 growl | nsubj:outer |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 growl | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 growl | mark |
| 19 | growl | growl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 M | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 M | punct |
| 22 | M | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 growl | obj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 m | punct |
| 24 | m | m | NOUN | _ | 4 afraid | parataxis |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 m | punct |
| 26 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 m | conj |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tiger | m and m parataxis; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | Tiger's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | could | Tiger | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | all | M obj; growl property | tree rules |
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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