Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 59

They travelled a long way without coming across him, but at length, as they were crossing a high pass they found him feeding upon the carcase of a dead Horse.

Who acts: doubt, Fox · What happens: travel, come, cross, find, feed · To what, where: long way, length, high pass, Fox

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 (doubt, Fox), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 coming	mark
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
8	across	across	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 length	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 length	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crossing	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 crossing	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crossing	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crossing	aux
18	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pass	det
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pass	amod
21	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crossing	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pass	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	obj
25	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 found	xcomp
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 carcase	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 carcase	det
28	carcase	carcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feeding	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Horse	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Horse	det
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Horse	amod
32	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carcase	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	doubt	a long way	length		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
2	come	gerund	doubt not said here			across Fox	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across he=Initial_Location
3	cross	past · progressive	doubt	a high pass			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Patient
4	find	past	doubt	Fox			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
5	feed	gerund	Fox not said here			upon the carcase of a dead Horse	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 59