Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 23

When the Sheep found herself left alone at the mouth of the Wolf’s den, her natural timidity asserted itself, and she began to feel very nervous, but in order to keep up appearances she started to rub her horns against a stone, just as the Goat had advised her to do.

Who acts: Sheep, distance, natural timidity, Goat · What happens: find, leave, assert, begin, feel, keep up · To what, where: distance, mouth, timidity, appearances, horns, stone

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 (Sheep, distance, natural timidity, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sheep	det
3	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asserted	advcl
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 found	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	xcomp
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouth	det
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 den	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Wolf	det
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 den	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Wolf	case
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mouth	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 timidity	nmod:poss
18	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 timidity	amod
19	timidity	timidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asserted	nsubj
20	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 asserted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asserted	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 feel	mark
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 nervous	advmod
29	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feel	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 keep	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 keep	cc
32	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 keep	mark
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 in	fixed
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asserted	advcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 keep	compound:prt
37	appearances	appearance	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 keep	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 started	nsubj
39	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 appearances	acl:relcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 rub	mark
41	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 started	xcomp
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 horns	nmod:poss
43	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rub	obj
44	against	against	ADP	_	46 stone	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 stone	det
46	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 rub	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 advised	punct
48	just	just	ADV	_	53 advised	advmod
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 advised	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Goat	det
51	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 advised	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 advised	aux
53	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 rub	parataxis
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 advised	obj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 do	mark
56	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 advised	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 asserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Sheep	distance			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme
2	leave	participle	distance not said here		the mouth of the Wolf's den	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at mouth=Location
3	assert	past	distance's natural timidity	timidity			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
4	begin	past	distance				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	feel	to-infinitive	distance not said here			nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	keep up	to-infinitive	distance's natural timidity not said here	appearances			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme
7	start	past	distance	appearances not said here			tree rules
8	rub	to-infinitive	distance not said here	distance's horns	a stone		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme against stone=Destination
9	advise speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Goat		distance obj	tree rules
10	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Goat not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 23