Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 84
“I would with pleasure,” answered the Hare, “but really, the fact is, I can’t recollect a single song at this moment.
Who acts: pleasure, fact · What happens: answer, not be · To what, where: Hare · 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 (pleasure, fact), 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 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pleasure | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasure | aux |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pleasure | case |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 recollect | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 recollect | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 recollect | cc |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 recollect | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 really | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fact | det |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recollect | nsubj:outer |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 recollect | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 recollect | nsubj |
| 21 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 recollect | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 recollect | advmod |
| 23 | recollect | recollect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 song | det |
| 25 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 song | amod |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recollect | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 moment | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 moment | det |
| 29 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recollect | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | pleasure I | the Hare | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | can · present | the fact | moment | I nsubj; a single song obj; recollect property | tree rules |
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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