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Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 49

When the Kyang felt the pull on the rope he walked forward a few paces, much to the surprise of the Wolf and the Fox, who found themselves being dragged along the ground.

Who acts: Kyang, few paces · What happens: feel, walk, find, drag, surprise · To what, where: pull, rope, few paces, paces, ground, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

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, few paces), 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

advmoddetnsubjdetobjcasedetoblnsubjconjadvmoddetamodoblpunctadvmodcasedetapposcasedetnmodccdetconjpunctnsubjparataxisobjaux:passccompcasedetoblpunctrootWhenADVtheDETKyangPROPNfeltVERBtheDETpullNOUNonADPtheDETropeNOUNhePRONwalkedVERBforwardADVaDETfewADJpacesNOUN,PUNCTmuchADVtoADPtheDETsurpriseNOUNofADPtheDETWolfPROPNandCCONJtheDETFoxNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONfoundVERBthemselvesPRONbeingAUXdraggedVERBalongADPtheDETgroundNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 feltadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Kyangdet
3KyangKyangPROPNNumber=Sing4 feltnsubj
4feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 pulldet
6pullpullNOUNNumber=Sing4 feltobj
7ononADP_9 ropecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 ropedet
9roperopeNOUNNumber=Sing4 feltobl
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 walkednsubj
11walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 feltconj
12forwardforwardADV_11 walkedadvmod
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 pacesdet
14fewfewADJDegree=Pos15 pacesamod
15pacespaceNOUNNumber=Plur11 walkedobl
16,,PUNCT_20 surprisepunct
17muchmuchADV_20 surpriseadvmod
18totoADP_20 surprisecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 surprisedet
20surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing15 pacesappos
21ofofADP_23 Wolfcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Wolfdet
23WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing20 surprisenmod
24andandCCONJ_26 Foxcc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Foxdet
26FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing15 pacesconj
27,,PUNCT_29 foundpunct
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 foundnsubj
29foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 pacesparataxis
30themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes29 foundobj
31beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part32 draggedaux:pass
32draggeddragVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 foundccomp
33alongalongADP_35 groundcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 grounddet
35groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing32 draggedobl
36..PUNCT_4 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelpastthe Kyangthe pullthe ropevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pull=Theme on rope=Location
2walkpastKyanga few paces and the Foxforward propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3findpasta few paces and the Foxpaces = pacevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
4draggerund · passivethe groundvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: along ground=Location
5surprisethe Wolfnom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=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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