Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 34
“Good-morning, Aunt Lioness,” said the Hare, going up cautiously towards her; “what is the matter with you this morning?
Who acts: Hare · What happens: say, go up, be · To what, where: matter · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lioness | punct |
| 6 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lioness | compound |
| 7 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 matter | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 matter | punct |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 matter | nmod |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 morning | det |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Hare | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the Hare not said here | towards Lioness; cautiously property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | with you; what nsubj | 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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