Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 2
One spring the Sheep, in accordance with her annual custom, set out for the north, and one day, as she was strolling sedately along the path, while her little Lamb skipped about beside her, she suddenly came face to face with a large, fierce-looking Wolf.
Who acts: Tibet, little Lamb · What happens: set out, stroll, skip, come, look · To what, where: annual custom, path, One spring
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 (Tibet, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spring | nummod |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sheep | det |
| 4 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spring | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 accordance | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 accordance | case |
| 7 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spring | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 custom | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 custom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 custom | amod |
| 11 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accordance | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 custom | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 north | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 north | det |
| 17 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | nummod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spring | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strolling | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 strolling | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 strolling | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 strolling | aux |
| 26 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spring | conj |
| 27 | sedately | sedately | ADV | _ | 26 strolling | advmod |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 path | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 path | det |
| 30 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strolling | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 skipped | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 skipped | mark |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 Lamb | nmod:poss |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Lamb | amod |
| 35 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 skipped | nsubj |
| 36 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 strolling | parataxis |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 39 her | advmod |
| 38 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 skipped | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 came | punct |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 came | nsubj |
| 42 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 43 came | advmod |
| 43 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 skipped | conj |
| 44 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | nsubj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 face | case |
| 46 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 face | nmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 Wolf | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 Wolf | det |
| 49 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Wolf | amod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 large | punct |
| 51 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 looking | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 fierce | punct |
| 53 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 Wolf | amod |
| 54 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | Tibet's annual custom not said here | for the north | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stroll | past · progressive | Tibet | the path | sedately property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | skip | past | Tibet's little Lamb | beside Tibet | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Tibet | with a large looking Wolf; face to face nsubj; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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