Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 47
So when the Goat died shortly after the Fox stripped off his skin, and set off with it to hand it over to the Goat’s young ones.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: die, strip off, set off, hand over · To what, where: skin, young ones
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 stripped | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 died | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Goat | det |
| 4 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stripped | advcl |
| 6 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 died | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 Fox | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fox | det |
| 9 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 died | obl |
| 10 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 stripped | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stripped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stripped | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hand | mark |
| 21 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hand | obj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 hand | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 ones | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Goat | det |
| 26 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 ones | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Goat | case |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 29 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hand | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the Goat | after the Fox | shortly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | strip off | past | Fox's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | |||||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | with skin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hand over | to-infinitive | skin | the Goat's young ones | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Destination |
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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