Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 51
But the faster he galloped the faster went the shadow, and he soon saw that it was no good trying to escape.
Who acts: Boy, faster, it · What happens: gallop, go, see, be, try, escape · To what, where: shadow
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, faster, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 galloped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 faster | det |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 galloped | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 galloped | nsubj |
| 5 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 faster | det |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shadow | det |
| 10 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | advmod |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 good | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 good | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 good | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | obl |
| 21 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 good | csubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 escape | mark |
| 23 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 trying | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | Boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the faster | the shadow | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shadow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Boy | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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