Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 70
Look at me, with my beautiful stripes, and my great teeth and claws, and my long tail.
Who acts: you · What happens: look · To what, where: great teeth
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 (you), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stripes | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 stripes | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stripes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stripes | amod |
| 8 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 teeth | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 teeth | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 teeth | amod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 claws | cc |
| 15 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 teeth | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tail | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tail | cc |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tail | amod |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teeth | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | my great teeth and claws and my long tail | at me; with my beautiful stripes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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