Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 22
The Goat thanked the Sheep for her offer and told her how he had been acting during her absence, and after advising her to behave in the same manner and on no account to show any signs of fear, he went off to get something to eat and drink.
Who acts: Goat, distance · What happens: thank, tell, act, advise, behave, show · To what, where: Sheep, distance, same manner, signs, something, fear · 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, distance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sheep | det |
| 5 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 offer | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 offer | nmod:poss |
| 8 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 acting | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 acting | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 acting | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 acting | aux |
| 16 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | advcl |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 absence | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 absence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 acting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 advising | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 advising | cc |
| 22 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 advising | mark |
| 23 | advising | advise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 acting | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 advising | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 behave | mark |
| 26 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 advising | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 manner | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 manner | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 manner | amod |
| 30 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 behave | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 account | cc |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 account | case |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 account | det |
| 34 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 manner | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 show | mark |
| 36 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 behave | advcl |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 signs | det |
| 38 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 show | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 fear | case |
| 40 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 signs | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 went | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 went | nsubj |
| 43 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 went | compound:prt |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 went | advcl |
| 47 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 get | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 eat | mark |
| 49 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 something | acl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 drink | cc |
| 51 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 eat | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Goat | the Sheep | for distance's offer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme for offer=Attribute | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Goat not said here | distance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | act | past · perfect · progressive | Goat | during distance's absence | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | advise speech: other | gerund | Goat not said here | distance | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | behave not said to happen | to-infinitive | distance not said here | the same manner and no account | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | distance not said here | any signs of fear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | go off | past | Goat | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | get | to-infinitive | Goat not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | eat | to-infinitive | Goat not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | drink | infinitive | Goat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | offer | distance | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | absent | distance | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 13 | sign | fear | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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