Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 15
One day, as they were approaching the place where they had met the Wolf, it chanced that a Hare came hopping along the road towards them.
Who acts: Sheep, place, Hare · What happens: approach, meet, chance, come, hop · To what, where: place, Wolf
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, place, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chanced | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 approaching | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 approaching | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 approaching | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 approaching | aux |
| 7 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 approaching | obj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 met | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 met | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | aux |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chanced | nsubj |
| 18 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Hare | det |
| 21 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chanced | ccomp |
| 23 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 came | advcl |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hopping | obl |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hopping | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past · progressive | Sheep | the place | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | Sheep | the Wolf | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | chance | past | place | day | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a Hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hop | gerund | a Hare not said here | along the road; towards Sheep | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
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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