Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 81
“Well, then,” said the Hare, “as we have feasted well and feel happy and contented, let’s have a song before starting.”
Who acts: Hare, ’s · What happens: say, feast, feel, content, let, have · To what, where: we, ’s, song · 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 (Hare, ’s), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hare | det |
| 9 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 feasted | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feasted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feasted | aux |
| 15 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 let | advcl |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 feasted | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feel | cc |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feasted | conj |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 contented | cc |
| 21 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 happy | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feasted | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 24 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 song | det |
| 27 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 starting | mark |
| 29 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 have | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feast in a quote | present · perfect · passive | we | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | infinitive | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | content in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | ’s | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | infinitive | ’s not said here | a song | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 7 | start in a quote | gerund | ’s 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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