Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 44
Meanwhile the Hare, having cantered round to the other side, took up its position in rear of the Lioness, and began pelting her with stones and calling her all the bad names he could think of.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: have, canter, take up, begin, pelt, call · To what, where: cantered round, position, rear, Lioness, bad names · 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meanwhile | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 took | advcl |
| 6 | cantered | canter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 round | amod |
| 7 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 position | nmod:poss |
| 16 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rear | case |
| 18 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Lioness | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lioness | det |
| 21 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rear | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 25 | pelting | pelt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 began | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pelting | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 stones | case |
| 28 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pelting | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 calling | cc |
| 30 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 pelting | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 calling | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 names | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 names | det |
| 34 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 names | amod |
| 35 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 calling | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 think | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 think | aux |
| 38 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 names | acl:relcl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 think | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | cantered round | to the other side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Patient | ||||
| 2 | canter | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take up | past | side's position | rear of the Lioness | meanwhile property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent position=Value in rear=Location | |||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | pelt | gerund | Lioness | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | gerund | Lioness | all bad names obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme name=Result | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | could | Hare | all bad names not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme |
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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