Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 16

Thunderstorms, as you know, only occur in the spring, and the Spiders on hearing this noise will feel convinced that spring has really come, and will emerge without any further hesitation.

Who acts: you, Thunderstorms, Spiders, spring · What happens: know, occur, hear, feel, come, emerge · To what, where: noise

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Thunderstorms, Spiders, spring), 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	Thunderstorms	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 occur	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Thunderstorms	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 occur	advmod
8	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 spring	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spring	det
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occur	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feel	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Spiders	det
15	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feel	nsubj
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 hearing	mark
17	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 Spiders	acl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 noise	det
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hearing	obj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 feel	aux
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 occur	conj
22	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feel	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
24	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 convinced	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 emerge	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 emerge	cc
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 emerge	aux
31	emerge	emerge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feel	conj
32	without	without	ADP	_	35 hesitation	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 hesitation	det
34	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hesitation	amod
35	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 emerge	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 occur	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	occur	present	Thunderstorms		spring		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	gerund	the Spiders not said here	this noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
4	feel	future	the Spiders			convinced property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	come	present	spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	emerge	future	the Spiders not said here			without any further hesitation	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Dislodged the Spider., sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 16