Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 79
I accordingly opened the door; but no sooner did the Tiger come out, than he seized upon me, saying that he was so hungry that he had really no alternative but to devour me on the spot.
Who acts: I, Tiger · What happens: open, come out, seize, say, be, have · To what, where: door, me, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 sooner | advmod |
| 9 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 come | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tiger | det |
| 12 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 seized | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 22 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 come | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hungry | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hungry | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hungry | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 hungry | advmod |
| 27 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hungry | advcl |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 alternative | advmod |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 alternative | det |
| 33 | alternative | alternative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hungry | advcl |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 devour | cc |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 devour | mark |
| 36 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 devour | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 spot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spot | det |
| 40 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 devour | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | I | the door | accordingly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | come out | past · do-support | the Tiger | out, soon property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Tiger | upon me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Tiger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Tiger | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Tiger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | devour | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | me | the spot | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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