Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 73
“Oh, very well,” said the Man, and he came out of the house leaving the door open, and the Tiger stalked in.
Who acts: Man, strength, house, Tiger · What happens: say, come out, leave, stalk · To what, where: house, door · 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 (Man, strength, house, Tiger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 10 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 house | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaving | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stalked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stalked | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tiger | det |
| 26 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 stalked | nsubj |
| 27 | stalked | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 stalked | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come out | past | strength | the house | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the house not said here | the door | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 4 | stalk | past | the Tiger | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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