Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 75
“Very nice indeed,” replied the Man, and bolting the door outside he walked off with his axe, leaving the Tiger to starve to death.
Who acts: nice, strength · What happens: reply, bolt, walk off, leave, starve · To what, where: Man, door, Tiger
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 (nice, strength), 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 | _ | 3 nice | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 nice | advmod |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 nice | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nice | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nice | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Man | det |
| 9 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walked | cc |
| 12 | bolting | bolt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 walked | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bolting | obj |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 walked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 walked | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 axe | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 axe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaving | punct |
| 23 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 walked | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tiger | det |
| 25 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leaving | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 starve | mark |
| 27 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leaving | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 death | case |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 starve | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | nice | the Man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bolt | gerund | strength not said here | the door | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk off | past | strength | with strength's axe | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | strength not said here | the Tiger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | starve | to-infinitive | strength not said here | to death | 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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