Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 15
Presently the Goat began to scrape the earth with one hoof and the Wolf asked:
Who acts: Goat, Wolf · What happens: begin, scrape, ask · To what, where: earth
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, Wolf), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goat | det |
| 3 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 scrape | mark |
| 6 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scrape | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hoof | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hoof | nummod |
| 11 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scrape | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wolf | det |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Goat | presently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | scrape | to-infinitive | the Goat not said here | the earth | with one hoof | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient with hoof=Instrument | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
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