Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 55
What foolish creatures they are to have got themselves into so much trouble after I had freed them from all their difficulties.
Who acts: foolish creatures, I · What happens: get, free · To what, where: creatures, much trouble, difficulties
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 (foolish creatures, I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creatures | amod |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trouble | amod |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 freed | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 freed | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 freed | aux |
| 17 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 got | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 freed | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 difficulties | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 difficulties | det:predet |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 difficulties | nmod:poss |
| 22 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 freed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | foolish creatures | creatures = creature | much trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | free | past · perfect | I | creatures = creature | creatures's difficulties | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source |
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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