Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 39
The Wolf was so frightened on hearing this that he turned tail and fled away ignominiously; while the Sheep and the Lamb, after thanking the Hare heartily for his kind offices, continued their journey safely to their own home.
Who acts: Wolf, offices · What happens: be, hear, turn, flee away, thank, continue · To what, where: this, tail, Hare, journey
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, offices), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hearing | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hearing | advcl |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fled | cc |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 fled | advmod |
| 16 | ignominiously | ignominiously | ADV | _ | 14 fled | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sheep | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 Sheep | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sheep | det |
| 20 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Lamb | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lamb | det |
| 23 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sheep | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thanking | punct |
| 25 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 26 thanking | mark |
| 26 | thanking | thank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 frightened | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Hare | det |
| 28 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 thanking | obj |
| 29 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 26 thanking | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 offices | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 offices | nmod:poss |
| 32 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 offices | amod |
| 33 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thanking | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 continued | punct |
| 35 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 journey | nmod:poss |
| 37 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 continued | obj |
| 38 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 35 continued | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 home | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 home | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 home | amod |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 continued | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Wolf | the Sheep and the Lamb parataxis; frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Wolf not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Wolf | tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flee away | past | Wolf not said here | away, ignominiously property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the Wolf not said here | the Hare | for Wolf's kind offices; heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hare=Theme for office=Attribute | |||
| 6 | continue | past | offices's journey | to offices's own home; safely property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | journey | offices = office | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/11/39/