Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 24
As soon as he heard this noise the Wolf called out as before, asking what was happening.
Who acts: Goat, noise · What happens: hear, call out, ask, happen · To what, where: noise, Wolf · 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, noise), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 noise | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asking | punct |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 happening | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happening | aux |
| 18 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asking | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Goat | this noise | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | this noise not said here | the Wolf | before property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Goat not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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