Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 74
So the Wolf put his head through the handle of the jar, and all three made ready to start.
Who acts: Wolf, three · What happens: put, make, start · To what, where: head, handle
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 (Wolf, three), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 handle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 handle | det |
| 9 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 jar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jar | det |
| 12 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 handle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 three | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 start | mark |
| 20 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Wolf | Wolf's head | the handle of the jar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through handle=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | all three | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | all three not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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