Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 8
As he was crossing the plateau a fox jumped up in front of him and ran off towards the mountains.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: cross, jump up, run off · To what, where: plateau, front, mountains
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 (Boy), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 crossing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossing | aux |
| 4 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 jumped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plateau | det |
| 6 | plateau | plateau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossing | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossing | obj |
| 9 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 jumped | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 front | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jumped | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 mountains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountains | det |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | Boy | the plateau | a fox obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | jump up | past | front of Boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | run off | past | the mountains | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=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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