Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 51

After proceeding for some little distance he heard the sound of some one chopping wood, and creeping near he saw that it was a Woodcutter engaged in felling a tree.

Who acts: attendant, sound · What happens: proceed, hear, creep, see, be, fell · To what, where: sound, tree · 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 (attendant, sound), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 proceeding	mark
2	proceeding	proceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 creeping	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 distance	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proceeding	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distance	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sound	det
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 wood	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 chopping	nummod
14	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wood	compound
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 proceeding	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 creeping	cc
18	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	near	near	ADP	_	21 saw	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 creeping	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 engaged	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 engaged	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 engaged	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Woodcutter	det
26	Woodcutter	Woodcutter	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 engaged	nsubj
27	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	ccomp
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 felling	mark
29	felling	fell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 engaged	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tree	det
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 felling	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 creeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	proceed	gerund			for some little distance	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	attendant	the sound of some chopping wood		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	creep	gerund				tree rules
4	see	past	attendant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is	past	sound		a Woodcutter nsubj; engage property	tree rules
6	fell	gerund	sound not said here	a tree		tree rules

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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 51