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Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 29

Soon after, they arrived at the place where they were to meet the Wolf, and sure enough there was the Wolf waiting for them at the appointed spot.

Who acts: preparations, Wolf · What happens: arrive, meet, be, wait, appoint · To what, where: place, Wolf, appointed spot

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 (preparations, 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

advmodmarkpunctnsubjcasedetobladvmodnsubjauxmarkacl:relcldetobjpunctccconjadvmodexplccompdetnsubjaclcaseoblcasedetamodoblpunctrootSoonADVafterSCONJ,PUNCTtheyPRONarrivedVERBatADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVtheyPRONwereAUXtoPARTmeetVERBtheDETWolfPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJsureADJenoughADVtherePRONwasVERBtheDETWolfNOUNwaitingVERBforADPthemPRONatADPtheDETappointedVERBspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SoonsoonADVDegree=Pos5 arrivedadvmod
2afterafterSCONJ_5 arrivedmark
3,,PUNCT_2 afterpunct
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 arrivednsubj
5arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6atatADP_8 placecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 placedet
8placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing5 arrivedobl
9wherewhereADVPronType=Rel13 meetadvmod
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 meetnsubj
11werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 meetaux
12totoPART_13 meetmark
13meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf8 placeacl:relcl
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Wolfdet
15WolfWolfPROPNNumber=Sing13 meetobj
16,,PUNCT_18 surepunct
17andandCCONJ_18 surecc
18suresureADJDegree=Pos5 arrivedconj
19enoughenoughADV_18 sureadvmod
20theretherePRONPronType=Dem21 wasexpl
21wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 sureccomp
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Wolfdet
23WolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing21 wasnsubj
24waitingwaitVERBVerbForm=Ger23 Wolfacl
25forforADP_26 themcase
26themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 waitingobl
27atatADP_30 spotcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 spotdet
29appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 spotamod
30spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing24 waitingobl
31..PUNCT_5 arrivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepastpreparations = preparationthe placesoon propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2meetpastpreparations = preparationthe Wolfvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
3bepastthe Wolftherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4waitgerundthe Wolf not said herethe appointed spotfor preparations = preparationvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at spot=Location
5appointparticiplevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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