Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 14
“I am collecting the water to cook you in,” answered the Goat gruffly.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: collect, cook in, answer · To what, where: water, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Goat), 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 collecting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 collecting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 collecting | aux |
| 4 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collecting | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cook | mark |
| 8 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 collecting | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 cook | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cook | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 collecting | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 collecting | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Goat | det |
| 15 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 13 answered | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect in a quote | present · progressive | the Goat = goat | the water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cook in in a quote | to-infinitive | the Goat = goat not said here | you | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Goat | gruffly property | 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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