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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 1

The Tiger soon got tired of sitting in the house and tried to force his way out; but the house was too strongly built for him to be able to make any impression upon the walls, so he gave it up in despair and soon began to suffer severely from hunger and thirst.

Who acts: Tiger · What happens: get, sit, try, force out, build, be · To what, where: house, way, impression, despair, hunger

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

detnsubjadvmodxcompmarkadvclcasedetoblccconjmarkxcompnmod:possobjadvmodpunctccdetnsubj:passaux:passadvmodadvmodadvclmarknsubjmarkcopadvclmarkxcompdetobjcasedetnmodpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisobjcompound:prtcaseoblccadvmodconjmarkxcompadvmodcaseoblccconjpunctrootTheDETTigerPROPNsoonADVgotVERBtiredADJofSCONJsittingVERBinADPtheDEThouseNOUNandCCONJtriedVERBtoPARTforceVERBhisPRONwayNOUNoutADV;PUNCTbutCCONJtheDEThouseNOUNwasAUXtooADVstronglyADVbuiltVERBforSCONJhimPRONtoPARTbeAUXableADJtoPARTmakeVERBanyDETimpressionNOUNuponADPtheDETwallsNOUN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONgaveVERBitPRONupADPinADPdespairNOUNandCCONJsoonADVbeganVERBtoPARTsufferVERBseverelyADVfromADPhungerNOUNandCCONJthirstNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Tigerdet
2TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing4 gotnsubj
3soonsoonADVDegree=Pos4 gotadvmod
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5tiredtiredADJDegree=Pos4 gotxcomp
6ofofSCONJ_7 sittingmark
7sittingsitVERBVerbForm=Ger5 tiredadvcl
8ininADP_10 housecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 housedet
10househouseNOUNNumber=Sing7 sittingobl
11andandCCONJ_12 triedcc
12triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gotconj
13totoPART_14 forcemark
14forceforceVERBVerbForm=Inf12 triedxcomp
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 waynmod:poss
16waywayNOUNNumber=Sing14 forceobj
17outoutADV_14 forceadvmod
18;;PUNCT_25 builtpunct
19butbutCCONJ_25 builtcc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 housedet
21househouseNOUNNumber=Sing25 builtnsubj:pass
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 builtaux:pass
23tootooADV_24 stronglyadvmod
24stronglystronglyADV_25 builtadvmod
25builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 gotadvcl
26forforSCONJ_30 ablemark
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 ablensubj
28totoPART_30 ablemark
29bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 ablecop
30ableableADJDegree=Pos25 builtadvcl
31totoPART_32 makemark
32makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf30 ablexcomp
33anyanyDETPronType=Ind34 impressiondet
34impressionimpressionNOUNNumber=Sing32 makeobj
35uponuponADP_37 wallscase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 wallsdet
37wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur34 impressionnmod
38,,PUNCT_41 gavepunct
39sosoADV_41 gaveadvmod
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 gavensubj
41gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gotparataxis
42ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 gaveobj
43upupADP_41 gavecompound:prt
44ininADP_45 despaircase
45despairdespairNOUNNumber=Sing41 gaveobl
46andandCCONJ_48 begancc
47soonsoonADVDegree=Pos48 beganadvmod
48beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 gaveconj
49totoPART_50 suffermark
50suffersufferVERBVerbForm=Inf48 beganxcomp
51severelyseverelyADV_50 sufferadvmod
52fromfromADP_53 hungercase
53hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing50 sufferobl
54andandCCONJ_55 thirstcc
55thirstthirstNOUNNumber=Sing53 hungerconj
56..PUNCT_4 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastthe Tigersoon, tired propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2sitgerundthe Tiger not said herethe housevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
3trypastthe Tiger not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4force out not said to happento-infinitivethe Tiger not said hereTiger's wayout propertyvn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5buildpast · passivethe housestrongly propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
6isto-infinitiveTigerable propertytree rules
7maketo-infinitiveTiger not said hereany impressionupon the wallsvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
8give uppastTigerimpressiondespairvn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
9beginpastTiger not said heresoon propertyvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10sufferto-infinitiveTiger not said herehunger and thirstseverely propertyvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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