Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 12

After sitting waiting for some time the fox all of a sudden darted out of its earth, and ran off towards the hills, with the Boy’s hat sticking over its head.

Who acts: hat · What happens: sit, wait, dart, run off, stick · To what, where: all, fox, earth, hills, head

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hat), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 sitting	mark
2	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sitting	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sitting	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 darted	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 darted	det
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 darted	amod
13	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 all	nmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 earth	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 earth	nmod:poss
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 darted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 darted	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 ran	compound:prt
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 hills	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hills	det
24	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hat	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 hat	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Boy	det
28	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hat	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Boy	case
30	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ran	obl
31	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 hat	acl
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 head	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sticking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund		all				tree rules
2	wait	gerund		the fox		time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dart	participle			fox's earth			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Trajectory
4	run off	past			the hills		with the Boy's hat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hill=Destination
5	stick	gerund	the Boy's hat not said here		fox's head			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over head=Destination

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 12

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 12