Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 79
“Couldn’t be fuller,” replied the Wolf, rubbing his stomach with one paw.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: not be, reply, rub · To what, where: stomach · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fuller | punct |
| 2 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fuller | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fuller | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fuller | cop |
| 5 | fuller | full | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fuller | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rubbing | punct |
| 12 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rubbing | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 paw | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 paw | nummod |
| 17 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rubbing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fuller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | could | full property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rub | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Wolf's stomach | with one paw | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent stomach=Destination with paw=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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