Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 63
If you care to come along with us too we shall be very glad, and I think we can promise you some better refreshment than that old Horse you are devouring here.
Who acts: you, we, I · What happens: care, come along, be, think, promise, devour · To what, where: better refreshment, you, old Horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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, we, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 care | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nsubj |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 glad | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 care | xcomp |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 glad | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 glad | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 glad | advmod |
| 14 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 glad | conj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 promise | aux |
| 21 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 promise | iobj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 refreshment | det |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 refreshment | amod |
| 25 | refreshment | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 promise | obj |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 Horse | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Horse | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Horse | amod |
| 29 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 promise | obl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 devouring | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 devouring | aux |
| 32 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 Horse | acl:relcl |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 devouring | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come along | to-infinitive | you not said here | with us; along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | we | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | can | we | some better refreshment | you | than that old Horse | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal refreshment=Theme | ||
| 6 | devour | present · progressive | you | that old Horse not said here | here | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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