Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 26

During the summer months he had eaten a quantity of grass and had now become very fat and sleek, and was about twice as big as he had been in the spring.

Who acts: Kyang · What happens: eat, become, be · To what, where: quantity

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyang), 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 months	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 months	det
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 months	compound
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eaten	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eaten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 quantity	det
9	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quantity	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 become	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 become	advmod
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 eaten	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 fat	advmod
17	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 become	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleek	cc
19	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 big	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 big	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 big	cop
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 twice	advmod
24	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 big	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eaten	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 spring	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 spring	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 spring	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 spring	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 spring	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 spring	det
33	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 big	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	Kyang	a quantity of grass	month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient
2	become	past · perfect	Kyang not said here		now	fat property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	Kyang not said here			big, twice property	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	Kyang		in the spring		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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 26

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 26