Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 5

Uncle Wolf,” replied the trembling Sheep, “we are doing no harm; I am just taking my Lamb to graze on the rich grass of the great northern plateau.”

Who acts: Uncle Wolf, we, I · What happens: reply, do, take, graze · To what, where: trembling Sheep, harm, Lamb

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 (Uncle Wolf, we, I), 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	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sheep	det
7	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Sheep	compound
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 replied	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 harm	det
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doing	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 taking	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 taking	aux
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 taking	advmod
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 replied	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Lamb	nmod:poss
22	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 graze	mark
24	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 taking	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grass	amod
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 graze	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 plateau	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plateau	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plateau	amod
32	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plateau	amod
33	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grass	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	Uncle Wolf	the trembling Sheep			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic
2	do	present · progressive	we	no harm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
3	take	present · progressive	I		my Lamb		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=Destination
4	graze	to-infinitive	I not said here			on the rich grass of the great northern plateau	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 5