Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 73
The Tiger consented to this, and after going on a little farther together they met a Hare, hopping quietly down the road towards them.
Who acts: Tiger, places · What happens: consent, go, meet, hop · To what, where: Hare
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, places), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 consented | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 met | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 farther | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 farther | obl |
| 13 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 going | obl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Hare | det |
| 18 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hopping | punct |
| 20 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 met | advcl |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 hopping | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hopping | obl |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hopping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Tiger | to this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | places = place not said here | together property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | places = place | a Hare | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | hop | gerund | places = place not said here | down the road; towards places = place; quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
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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