Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 71

The Fox and the Wolf both agreed with the Hare’s proposals, and they began to load themselves with the provisions they proposed to take with them.

Who acts: Fox, doubt, Hare · What happens: agree, begin, load, propose, take · To what, where: doubt, provisions

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 (Fox, doubt, Hare), 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 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 agreed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Wolf	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	conj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 agreed	advmod
7	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 proposals	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Hare	det
10	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 proposals	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Hare	case
12	proposals	proposal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 agreed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 agreed	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 load	mark
18	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 load	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 provisions	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 provisions	det
22	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 load	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 proposed	nsubj
24	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 provisions	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proposed	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the Fox and the Wolf		with the Hare's proposals; both property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with proposal=Co-Agent
2	begin	past	doubt			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	load	to-infinitive	doubt not said here	doubt	with the provisions	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination with provision=Theme
4	propose	past	doubt	the provisions not said here		tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	doubt not said here		with doubt	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	propose		the Hare			nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 71