Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 13

All the summer they grazed about on the succulent grass of the great plateau, and when autumn was approaching both were as fat as fat could be, and the little Lamb had grown into a fine young Sheep.

Who acts: Sheep, autumn, little Lamb · What happens: graze, approach, be, grow

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep, autumn, little Lamb), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 summer	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summer	det
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grazed	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grazed	nsubj
5	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 grazed	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
9	succulent	succulent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grass	amod
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grazed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 plateau	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plateau	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plateau	amod
14	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grass	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 approaching	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 approaching	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 approaching	advmod
18	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 approaching	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 approaching	aux
20	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grazed	advcl
21	both	both	ADV	_	24 fat	advmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fat	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 fat	advmod
24	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 approaching	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 be	mark
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 be	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 be	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 fat	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grown	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grown	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Lamb	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Lamb	amod
33	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 grown	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 grown	aux
35	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 approaching	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	40 Sheep	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Sheep	det
38	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Sheep	amod
39	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Sheep	amod
40	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 grown	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past	Sheep	summer	on the succulent grass of the great plateau; about property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient
2	approach	past · progressive	autumn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	autumn not said here		both, fat property	tree rules
4	grow	past · perfect	the little Lamb		into a fine young Sheep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sheep=Result

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 Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 13

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 13