Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 31
On hearing this the Wolf dashed out of his den, and seizing hold of the poor Sheep he quickly slew her.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: hear, dash, seize, slay, hold · To what, where: this, den, hold, distance, poor Sheep
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dashed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dashed | nsubj |
| 6 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 den | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 den | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 den | nmod:poss |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dashed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seizing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seizing | cc |
| 13 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dashed | advcl |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seizing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sheep | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sheep | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Sheep | amod |
| 18 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slew | nsubj |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 slew | advmod |
| 21 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seizing | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Wolf not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | the Wolf | Wolf's den | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out den=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | the Wolf not said here | hold of the poor Sheep | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slay | past | Wolf | distance | quickly property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 5 | hold | the poor Sheep | nom hold «act 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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