Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 36
What a fortunate thing it is that I should have met you here!
Who acts: thing, fortunate thing · What happens: thing, be
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 (thing, fortunate thing), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 met | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 met | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 met | aux |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 met | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 met | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing | thing | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | should · present · perfect | what fortunate thing | here | I nsubj; you obj; meet property | tree rules |
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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