Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 32
The rich man was very frightened at seeing this truculent-looking stranger, and asked who he was.
Who acts: rich man, change · What happens: be, see, look, ask · To what, where: looking stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, change), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 seeing | mark |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 frightened | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stranger | det |
| 10 | truculent | truculent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looking | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 truculent | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stranger | amod |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 who | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 who | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rich man | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the rich man not said here | this looking stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the rich man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | change | 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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