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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 6

The Deer was a good deal frightened when she heard the Tiger’s voice, but when she understood how matters were she was reassured, and replied:

Who acts: Deer · What happens: be, frighten, hear, understand, reassure, reply · To what, where: good deal, voice, matters

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 (Deer), 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

detnsubjcopdetamodapposadvmodnsubjadvcldetnmod:posscaseobjpunctccadvmodnsubjconjadvmodnsubj:passauxnsubj:passaux:passadvclpunctccparataxispunctrootTheDETDeerPROPNwasAUXaDETgoodADJdealNOUNfrightenedVERBwhenADVshePRONheardVERBtheDETTigerPROPN’sPARTvoiceNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVshePRONunderstoodVERBhowADVmattersNOUNwereAUXshePRONwasAUXreassuredVERB,PUNCTandCCONJrepliedVERB:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Deerdet
2DeerDeerPROPNNumber=Sing7 frightenednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 dealcop
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 dealdet
5goodgoodADJDegree=Pos6 dealamod
6dealdealNOUNNumber=Sing2 Deerappos
7frightenedfrightenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8whenwhenADVPronType=Int10 heardadvmod
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 heardnsubj
10heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 frightenedadvcl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Tigerdet
12TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing14 voicenmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 Tigercase
14voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing10 heardobj
15,,PUNCT_19 understoodpunct
16butbutCCONJ_19 understoodcc
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 understoodadvmod
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 understoodnsubj
19understoodunderstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 frightenedconj
20howhowADVPronType=Int25 reassuredadvmod
21mattersmatterNOUNNumber=Plur25 reassurednsubj:pass
22werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 reassuredaux
23sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 reassurednsubj:pass
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 reassuredaux:pass
25reassuredreassureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 understoodadvcl
26,,PUNCT_28 repliedpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 repliedcc
28repliedreplyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 frightenedparataxis
29::PUNCT_7 frightenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apasta good dealtree rules
2frightenpastthe Deervn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3hearpastDeerthe Tiger's voicevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4understandpastDeervn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5reassurepast · passivemattersDeer nsubj:passvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6reply speech: assertparticiplevn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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