Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 30
As soon as they came within earshot of where the Wolf was standing the Hare called out in a sharp tone of authority:
Who acts: preparations, Wolf · What happens: come, stand, call out, intonate · To what, where: Hare, sharp tone, authority
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 earshot | case |
| 7 | earshot | earshot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 where | case |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 standing | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 standing | aux |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 earshot | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hare | det |
| 15 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 standing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 called | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tone | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tone | det |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tone | amod |
| 21 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 authority | case |
| 23 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tone | nmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | preparations = preparation | within earshot; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the Wolf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the Hare | a sharp tone of authority | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | intonate | authority | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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