Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 18
Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the well and peeped over, craning her head from side to side.
Who acts: gutter · What happens: not find, leave, hop, peep over, crane · To what, where: Crow, edge, head, side
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gutter), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 finding | advmod |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 left | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 finding | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 left | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 left | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hopped | nsubj |
| 10 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 edge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 edge | det |
| 13 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hopped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 edge | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 peeped | cc |
| 18 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 left | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 peeped | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 craning | punct |
| 21 | craning | crane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 peeped | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 craning | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 craning | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 side | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | gerund | gutter not said here | Crow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | gutter | Crow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hop | past | gutter | the edge of the well | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination | ||||
| 4 | peep over | participle | gutter not said here | over property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | crane | gerund | gutter not said here | gutter's head | side to side | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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