Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 14

When the time came for returning to the south, the Sheep remembered her bargain with the Wolf, and every day as they drew farther and farther south she grew more and more downhearted.

Who acts: time, Sheep, Lamb · What happens: come, return, remember, draw, grow, bargain · To what, where: bargain

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 (time, Sheep, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 remembered	advcl
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 returning	mark
6	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 south	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 south	det
9	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sheep	det
12	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 remembered	nsubj
13	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bargain	nmod:poss
15	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remembered	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 Wolf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Wolf	det
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bargain	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drew	cc
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drew	obl:unmarked
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 drew	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drew	nsubj
25	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 remembered	parataxis
26	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 grew	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 farther	cc
28	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 farther	conj
29	south	south	ADV	_	26 farther	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drew	conj
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 grew	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 downhearted	cc
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 downhearted	advmod
35	downhearted	downhearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 more	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	gerund	the time not said here			to the south result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to south=Result
3	remember	past	the Sheep	Lamb's bargain		with the Wolf	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme
4	draw	past	Sheep		day		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	past	Lamb			far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bargain		Lamb			with the Wolf	nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 14

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 14