Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 18

“Now, Uncle Lion,” said the Hare, “if you will go to the edge of that tank and look down into the water you will see the animal I speak of.”

Who acts: Uncle, you · What happens: say, go, look down, see, speak · To what, where: edge, animal, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Uncle	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Uncle	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Uncle	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hare	det
10	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 edge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 edge	det
19	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tank	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 tank	det
22	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 edge	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 look	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 look	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 animal	det
33	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 speak	nsubj
35	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 animal	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 speak	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Uncle			now	the Hare nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		the edge of that tank			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
3	look down in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				down property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see in a quote	future	you	the animal	the water			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other in a quote	present	Uncle	the animal not said here				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 Hare and the Lions., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 18