Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 24
“Dear me! dear me!” replied the Hare; “this is indeed a sad story; but cheer up, Sister Sheep, you may leave it to me, and I think I can answer for it that I know how to manage the Wolf.”
Who acts: Hare, this, you, story · What happens: reply, be, cheer up, leave, think, answer · To what, where: sad story, Sister Sheep, story, Hare, that, Wolf · 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, this, you, story), 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 | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | amod |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dear | iobj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hare | det |
| 11 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 story | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 story | cop |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 story | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 cheer | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 cheer | cc |
| 22 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 story | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 cheer | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sheep | punct |
| 25 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sheep | compound |
| 26 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cheer | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 leave | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 leave | aux |
| 30 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cheer | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 leave | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 think | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 think | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 think | nsubj |
| 37 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cheer | conj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 answer | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 answer | aux |
| 40 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 think | ccomp |
| 41 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 know | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 know | nsubj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 know | obl |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 know | nsubj |
| 45 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 answer | advcl |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 manage | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 manage | mark |
| 48 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 know | ccomp |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Wolf | det |
| 50 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 manage | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Hare | me ccomp | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a sad story | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cheer up in a quote | present | Sister Sheep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | may | you | story | the Hare = hare | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Hare = hare | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert in a quote | can | the Hare = hare | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | know in a quote | present | story | that | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | manage in a quote | to-infinitive | the Wolf | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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