Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 67
So they jumped in through a narrow window and began to enjoy themselves thoroughly, eating and drinking anything which took their fancy.
Who acts: three · What happens: jump in, begin, enjoy, eat, drink, take · To what, where: narrow window, three, anything, fancy
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 7 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 window | amod |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 enjoy | mark |
| 12 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 enjoy | obj |
| 14 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 12 enjoy | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eating | punct |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 enjoy | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drinking | cc |
| 18 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 eating | conj |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 drinking | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 anything | acl:relcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | three | a narrow window | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | three not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | three not said here | three | thoroughly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | three not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | three not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take | past | three's fancy | which nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fancy | three | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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