Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 36
The young Tiger eyed this strange animal with some surprise, and going up to it he said:
Who acts: young Tiger, Bullock · What happens: eye, go up, say · To what, where: strange animal, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young Tiger, Bullock), 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 Tiger | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tiger | amod |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eyed | nsubj |
| 4 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 surprise | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 surprise | det |
| 10 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 said | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eyed | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eye | past | the young Tiger | this strange animal | with some surprise | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go up | gerund | surprise | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bullock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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