Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 6
“Well,” said the Wolf, “I am really very sorry for you; but the fact is, I am hungry, and it will be necessary for me to eat you both on the spot.”
Who acts: Wolf, fact · What happens: say, be, eat · To what, where: you, spot · 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, fact), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorry | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sorry | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sorry | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 sorry | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 sorry | advmod |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sorry | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hungry | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 hungry | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fact | det |
| 20 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hungry | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hungry | cop |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 necessary | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 necessary | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 necessary | expl |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 necessary | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 necessary | cop |
| 31 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 eat | mark |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 eat | nsubj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 eat | mark |
| 35 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 necessary | advcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 eat | obj |
| 37 | both | both | ADV | _ | 35 eat | advmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 spot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spot | det |
| 40 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 eat | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Wolf = wolf | for you; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the fact | I nsubj; hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | the Wolf not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Wolf = wolf | you | the spot | both property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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