Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 65
The Wolf was very pleased at this invitation, so he joined the Hare and the Fox, and all three went off together to the big house where the wedding feast was being held.
Who acts: Wolf, three · What happens: be, join, go off, hold · To what, where: invitation, Hare, wedding feast
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 (Wolf, three), 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 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 invitation | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 invitation | det |
| 8 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joined | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 joined | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 joined | nsubj |
| 12 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hare | det |
| 14 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 joined | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fox | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fox | det |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hare | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 three | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 joined | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 went | compound:prt |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 house | amod |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 held | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 feast | det |
| 31 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feast | compound |
| 32 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 held | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 held | aux:pass |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 held | aux:pass |
| 35 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 house | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Wolf | this invitation | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | past | Wolf | the Hare and the Fox | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | all three | to the big house; together property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past · passive | the wedding feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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