Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 9

The dog, on seeing the fox, started to chase it; while the young Man, thinking he was to have some fun at last, galloped after the dog as fast as he could.

Who acts: dog, young Man · What happens: see, start, chase, think, have, gallop · To what, where: fox, fun, last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dog, young Man), 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 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 started	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeing	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 seeing	mark
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dog	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dog	punct
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 chase	mark
11	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 started	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chase	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 thinking	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Man	amod
17	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 thinking	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Man	punct
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 started	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thinking	ccomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 fun	det
25	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 galloped	punct
29	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 started	conj
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 dog	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 galloped	obl:agent
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 fast	advmod
34	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 galloped	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fast	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the dog not said here	the fox			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus
2	start	past	the dog				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chase	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	fox			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	the young Man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	dog	some fun	last		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient
6	gallop	participle	the dog not said here			the dog obl:agent; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 9

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 9