Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 73

So the Hare explained to him that the best plan would be for him to slip his head through the handle of the jar, in which case it would be quite easy for him to drag the jar along with him.

Who acts: Hare, best plan · What happens: explain, be, drag · To what, where: Fox, handle, case, 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 (Hare, best plan), 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	_	4 explained	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 explained	nsubj
4	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 explained	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 slip	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plan	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 plan	amod
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slip	nsubj:outer
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 slip	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 slip	cop
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 slip	mark
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slip	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 slip	mark
16	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 explained	ccomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slip	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 handle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 handle	det
21	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slip	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 jar	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jar	det
24	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 handle	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 easy	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 case	case
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 case	det
28	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 easy	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 easy	expl
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 easy	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 easy	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 easy	advmod
33	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slip	advcl
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 drag	mark
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drag	nsubj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drag	mark
37	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 easy	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 jar	det
39	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 drag	obj
40	along	along	ADP	_	42 him	case
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 drag	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past	the Hare		Fox			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	would	the best plan			the handle of the jar	Hare nsubj; Fox's head obj; slip property	tree rules
3	is	would	the best plan not said here			which case	easy property	tree rules
4	drag	to-infinitive	Hare	the jar			along Fox	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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 73