Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 23
So saying, the poor Sheep broke down altogether and burst into tears.
Who acts: poor Sheep · What happens: say, break down, burst · To what, where: tears · 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 (poor Sheep), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 broke | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sheep | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Sheep | amod |
| 6 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 broke | compound:prt |
| 9 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 broke | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burst | cc |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broke | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 tears | case |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burst | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the poor Sheep not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | break down | past | the poor Sheep | altogether property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | the poor Sheep not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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