Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 26
He dressed himself up in his very best clothes, in a new robe of woollen cloth, with a long ear-ring in his left ear, and a fashionable hat on his head, and strapped a small saddle on to the back of the Sheep.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: dress up, strap · To what, where: Wolf, best clothes, small saddle
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 dressed | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 dressed | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 best | advmod |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 robe | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 robe | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 robe | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 robe | amod |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothes | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cloth | case |
| 16 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloth | amod |
| 17 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robe | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ring | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 ring | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ring | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ring | amod |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ring | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ear | punct |
| 24 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 ear | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ear | nmod:poss |
| 27 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ear | amod |
| 28 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ring | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hat | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hat | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hat | det |
| 32 | fashionable | fashionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hat | amod |
| 33 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dressed | parataxis |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hat | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 strapped | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 strapped | cc |
| 39 | strapped | strap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dressed | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 saddle | det |
| 41 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 saddle | amod |
| 42 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strapped | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADV | _ | 39 strapped | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 back | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 back | det |
| 46 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strapped | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Sheep | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Sheep | det |
| 49 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 back | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past | Wolf | Wolf | Wolf's best clothes and a new robe of woollen cloth | with a long ear ring in Wolf's left ear; a fashionable hat on Wolf's head parataxis | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 2 | strap | past | Wolf not said here | a small saddle | to the back of the Sheep result | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent saddle=Patient to back=Result |
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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