Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 74
“Now, look at me,” called out the conceited young Tiger from inside, “don’t I look nice in my fine house?”
Who acts: you, Man · What happens: look, call out, do, not look · To what, where: conceited young Tiger · 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 (you, Man), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 look | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 look | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tiger | det |
| 12 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tiger | amod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Tiger | amod |
| 14 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 inside | case |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | conj |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 look | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 look | nsubj |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 look | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nice | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the conceited young Tiger | now | at me | tree rules | ||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not look in a quote | present | the Man = man | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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