Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 6
Presently the Sheep grew rather hungry and thirsty, so she went off to eat and drink, leaving the Goat to watch the earth.
Who acts: Sheep, distance · What happens: grow, go off, eat, drink, leave, watch · To what, where: Goat, earth
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 (Sheep, distance), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sheep | det |
| 3 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 6 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thirsty | cc |
| 8 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hungry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drink | cc |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 eat | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Goat | det |
| 21 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 watch | mark |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leaving | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watch | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Sheep | hungry, presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | distance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | distance not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | distance not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | distance not said here | the Goat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | distance not said here | the earth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme |
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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