Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 35

The old animal had a wrinkled skin and a small and bleary eye, and behind its huge ears were many cuts and ancient scars, showing where the goad had been so frequently applied.

Who acts: old animal · What happens: have, wrinkle, be, show, apply · To what, where: wrinkled skin, huge ears, many cuts, goad

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old animal), 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 animal	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 skin	det
6	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eye	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 eye	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eye	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bleary	cc
12	bleary	bleary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 small	conj
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ears	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ears	cc
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 ears	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ears	amod
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cuts	cop
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cuts	amod
22	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ears	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 scars	cc
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 scars	amod
25	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ears	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 showing	punct
27	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	advcl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 applied	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 goad	det
30	goad	goad	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 applied	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 applied	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 applied	aux:pass
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 applied	advmod
34	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	35 applied	advmod
35	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 showing	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old animal	a wrinkled skin and a small eye	eye's huge ears and many cuts and ancient scars		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	the old animal not said here	many cuts			tree rules
4	show	gerund	the old animal not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	apply	past · perfect · passive		the goad		frequently property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 35