--- title: The tiger is not on fire: its orange stripes seem to glow like flame… — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics description: The tiger is not on fire: its orange stripes seem to glow like flames in the dark forest, so it looks powerful and dangerous. Who acts: tiger, orange stripes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiger, orange stripes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:5 # text = The tiger is not on fire: its orange stripes seem to glow like flames in the dark forest, so it looks powerful and dangerous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 glow glow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the tiger | | | fire | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | present | tiger's orange stripes | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **glow** | to-infinitive | tiger's orange stripes *not said here* | | | the dark forest | | like flames | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | | 4 | **look** | present | tiger | | | | | powerful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/3/) - next →: [Reading poems: meaning, sound and pict…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/)