Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 17
“Good-morning, Sister Sheep, how is it that you, who are so fat and have so fine a Lamb, are looking so sad this morning?”
What happens: be, have, look · To what, where: road, fine Lamb
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fat | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fat | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sheep | punct |
| 6 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sheep | compound |
| 7 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 morning | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 it | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 morning | conj |
| 12 | that | that | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 it | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fat | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fat | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fat | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 fat | advmod |
| 18 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fat | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Lamb | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Lamb | det |
| 24 | Lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looking | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 looking | aux |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 have | conj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 sad | advmod |
| 29 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 looking | xcomp |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 morning | det |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 fat | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 fat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | road | that you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | morning | who nsubj; fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a fine Lamb | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present · progressive | morning | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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