Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 50
“Where are you going to, and what is that you have on your back?”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, be · To what, where: back
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 going | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 have | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | cop |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | your back | what obj; have 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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