Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 41
The poor Horses, in fear and pain, soon stampeded, and galloped about all over the country.
Who acts: poor Horses · What happens: stampede, gallop · To what, where: country
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 (poor Horses), 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 Horses | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Horses | amod |
| 3 | Horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stampeded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fear | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Horses | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pain | cc |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fear | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Horses | punct |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 stampeded | advmod |
| 11 | stampeded | stampede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 galloped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 galloped | cc |
| 14 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stampeded | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 all | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 country | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 galloped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stampeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stampede | past | the poor Horses and fear and pain | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gallop | past | the poor Horses and fear and pain not said here | the country | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=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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