Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 32

“I am the Wolf,” was the reply; “and I have come here to eat this Sheep and its Lamb, in accordance with a regular arrangement.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be, come, eat · To what, where: Wolf, reply, Sheep, accordance · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wolf	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Wolf	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Wolf	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reply	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Wolf	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Wolf	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reply	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reply	det
10	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 reply	parataxis
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	advcl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 Sheep	det
21	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Lamb	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Lamb	nmod:poss
24	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Sheep	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 accordance	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 accordance	case
27	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 arrangement	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 arrangement	det
30	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 arrangement	amod
31	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 accordance	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Wolf = wolf	the Wolf		tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	the Wolf	the reply		tree rules
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	the Wolf = wolf		here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the Wolf = wolf not said here	this Sheep and reply's Lamb	accordance with a regular arrangement	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 32