Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 13
“What is happening now, pray, Brother Goat?”
What happens: happen, pray · To what, where: Brother Goat
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 happening | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happening | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happening | aux |
| 4 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happening | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 happening | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Goat | punct |
| 9 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Goat | compound |
| 10 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pray | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present · progressive | now | What nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | infinitive | Brother Goat | 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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