Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 66
They studied the premises carefully before approaching too near, and they soon ascertained that the whole of the wedding party were busy feasting in the central room, and that the larder, full of good things to eat and drink, was quite unguarded.
Who acts: three · What happens: study, approach, ascertain, be, eat, drink · To what, where: premises, central room, whole busy feasting, larder
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 studied | nsubj |
| 2 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 premises | det |
| 4 | premises | premise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 studied | obj |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 studied | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 approaching | mark |
| 7 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 studied | advcl |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 near | advmod |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 7 approaching | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ascertained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ascertained | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ascertained | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ascertained | advmod |
| 14 | ascertained | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 studied | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 whole | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 whole | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feasting | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 party | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 party | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 party | compound |
| 21 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whole | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 feasting | cop |
| 23 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feasting | amod |
| 24 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ascertained | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 27 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ascertained | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 unguarded | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 unguarded | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 unguarded | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 larder | det |
| 33 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 unguarded | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 full | punct |
| 35 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 larder | amod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 things | case |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 things | amod |
| 38 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 full | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 eat | mark |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 things | acl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 drink | cc |
| 42 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 eat | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 larder | punct |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 unguarded | aux:pass |
| 45 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 46 unguarded | advmod |
| 46 | unguarded | unguard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ascertained | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past | three | the premises | carefully property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent premise=Topic | |||
| 2 | approach | gerund | three not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ascertain | past | three | the central room | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is a | past | whole busy feasting | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | unguard | past · passive | the larder | tree rules |
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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