Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 34
As soon as the Goat caught sight of the Wolf coming along in the distance he guessed what had happened, and fled as fast as he could across the hills with the Wolf after him.
Who acts: Goat, Wolf · What happens: catch, come along, guess, happen, flee, sight · To what, where: sight, distance, hills, 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, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 caught | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 caught | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goat | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wolf | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 10 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Wolf | acl |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 coming | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 guessed | nsubj |
| 17 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 distance | acl:relcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 guessed | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fled | cc |
| 23 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 fled | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fast | advcl |
| 29 | across | across | ADP | _ | 31 hills | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hills | det |
| 31 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fled | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Wolf | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Wolf | det |
| 34 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 hills | nmod |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fled | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the Goat | sight of the Wolf | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | come along | gerund | the Wolf not said here | in the distance; along property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location | ||||
| 3 | guess | past | Goat | the distance not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | flee | past | the Goat not said here | the hills with the Wolf | after Wolf | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across hill=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | sight | the Wolf | nom sight «cognition 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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