Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 38
So saying, the Hare produced his sheet of paper, and, taking his pen in his hand, he wrote down the figure “1” very large.
Who acts: Hare, India · What happens: say, produce, take, write down · To what, where: sheet, pen, hand, figure · 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 (Hare, India), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 produced | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hare | det |
| 5 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 produced | nsubj |
| 6 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 produced | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paper | case |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheet | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taking | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 produced | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pen | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrote | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wrote | nsubj |
| 22 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 produced | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 wrote | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 figure | det |
| 25 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrote | obj |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 1 | punct |
| 27 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 figure | appos |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 1 | punct |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 large | advmod |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wrote | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Hare not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | produce | past | the Hare | India's sheet of paper | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the Hare not said here | India's pen | India's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pen=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | write down | past | India | the figure | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
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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