Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 72

The Fox and the Hare had no difficulty in making up a bundle of cheese and cold fowl, but the Wolf found that it would be very difficult for him to carry off the jar of wine.

Who acts: Fox, difficulty, Wolf · What happens: have, make up, find, be, carry off · To what, where: difficulty, bundle, jar · Speech: someone speaks here

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, difficulty, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Hare	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hare	det
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	conj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 difficulty	det
8	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 making	mark
10	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 difficulty	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 making	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bundle	det
13	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cheese	case
15	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bundle	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fowl	cc
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fowl	amod
18	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cheese	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Wolf	det
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 difficult	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 difficult	expl
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 difficult	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 difficult	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 difficult	advmod
29	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 found	ccomp
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 carry	mark
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carry	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 carry	mark
33	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 difficult	advcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 carry	compound:prt
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 jar	det
36	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carry	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wine	case
38	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jar	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Fox and the Hare	no difficulty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
2	make up	gerund	no difficulty not said here	a bundle of cheese and cold fowl		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bundle=Pivot
3	find	past	the Wolf			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	would			difficult property	tree rules
5	carry off	to-infinitive	Fox	the 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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 72