Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 62

The fact is, there is a wedding feast going on at that big house over yonder, where Brother Fox and I expect to find plenty to eat and drink.

Who acts: fact, wedding feast, Brother · What happens: be, go on, expect, find, eat, drink · To what, where: wedding feast, big house, plenty

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 (fact, wedding feast, Brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feast	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 is	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 is	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feast	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feast	compound
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 feast	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 house	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 yonder	case
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 going	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 expect	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 expect	advmod
20	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 expect	nsubj
21	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Brother	flat
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 I	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Brother	conj
24	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feast	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 expect	xcomp
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 plenty	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drink	cc
31	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 eat	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 feast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the fact	a wedding feast		tree rules
2	go on	gerund	a wedding feast not said here		that big house	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at house=Location
3	expect	present	Brother I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	Brother I not said here	plenty		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic
5	eat	to-infinitive	Brother I not said here	plenty not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink	infinitive	Brother I not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 62