Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 36
For some time the poor Goat lay helpless at the bottom of the crevice, when by chance a Fox, who happened to be passing that way, heard him moaning and came to see what was wrong.
Who acts: poor Goat, Fox, Goat · What happens: lie, happen, pass, hear, moan, come · To what, where: bottom, way, Goat · 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 (poor Goat, Fox, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Goat | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Goat | amod |
| 6 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lay | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crevice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crevice | det |
| 14 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 heard | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 chance | case |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heard | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Fox | det |
| 20 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chance | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happened | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 passing | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 passing | aux |
| 26 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 happened | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 passing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chance | punct |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | obj |
| 32 | moaning | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 heard | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 came | advcl |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 wrong | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wrong | cop |
| 39 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 see | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the poor Goat | the bottom of the crevice | time | helpless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location | ||
| 2 | happen | past | a Fox | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | a Fox not said here | that way | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Goat | by chance and a Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | moan | gerund | Goat not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | what nsubj; wrong property | tree rules |
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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