Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 30
The Hare was very pleased at having accomplished the destruction of the Lion, and he now turned his attention to the Lioness.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: be, accomplish, turn, destroy, attend · To what, where: destruction, attention, Lioness, Lion
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 (Hare), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 accomplished | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 accomplished | aux |
| 8 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 pleased | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 destruction | det |
| 10 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accomplished | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Lion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lion | det |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 destruction | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 turned | advmod |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 attention | nmod:poss |
| 20 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Lioness | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lioness | det |
| 23 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Hare | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accomplish | gerund · perfect | the Hare not said here | the destruction of the Lion | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Hare | Hare's attention | the Lioness | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to lioness=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | destroy | the Lion | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | attend | Hare | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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