Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 16

The Hare stopped to say good-morning to the Sheep, and noticing that she was looking very sad, he said:

Who acts: Hare, Wolf · What happens: stop, say, notice, look · To what, where: Sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hare, Wolf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 morning	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Sheep	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sheep	det
11	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
14	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 said	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 looking	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	aux
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 noticing	advcl
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 sad	advmod
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looking	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noticing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the Hare				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Hare not said here	the Sheep	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sheep=Recipient
3	notice	gerund	Wolf not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	past · progressive	Hare			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 16