Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 7
After sitting for a short while the Goat began rubbing his horns on a stone, and the Wolf hearing the grating sound squeaked out very humbly:
Who acts: Goat, Wolf · What happens: sit, begin, rub, hear, squeak out · To what, where: horns, stone, grating sound, Wolf
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 (Goat, Wolf), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 sitting | mark |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 short | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 short | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sitting | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 began | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Goat | det |
| 8 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horns | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rubbing | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rubbing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 squeaked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 squeaked | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wolf | det |
| 19 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 squeaked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Wolf | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 22 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sound | compound |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hearing | obj |
| 24 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 squeaked | compound:prt |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 humbly | advmod |
| 27 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 24 squeaked | advmod |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the Goat not said here | for a short | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Goat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rub | gerund | the Goat not said here | Goat's horns | a stone | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme on stone=Destination | |||
| 4 | hear | gerund | the Wolf not said here | the grating sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | squeak out | participle · passive | the Wolf | humbly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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