Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 70

I myself shall take some cheese; Brother Fox no doubt would like some cold fowl; and I should advise you, Brother Wolf, to carry off that jar of wine.”

Who acts: I, doubt · What happens: take, like, advise, carry off · To what, where: cheese, cold fowl, you, jar

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 (I, doubt), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
2	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 take	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cheese	det
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 Brother	punct
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brother	flat
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 doubt	det
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	parataxis
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 fowl	det
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fowl	amod
16	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 advise	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 advise	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 advise	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 advise	aux
21	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 advise	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Wolf	punct
24	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Wolf	compound
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 advise	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carry	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 carry	mark
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 advise	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 carry	compound:prt
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 jar	det
31	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carry	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 wine	case
33	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jar	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	shall	I	some cheese		Brother obl; myself nsubj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme
2	like	would	no doubt	some cold fowl			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fowl=Theme
3	advise speech: other	should	I		you	Brother Wolf obl	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	carry off	to-infinitive	I not said here	that jar of wine			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 70