Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 92
But the Fox and the Hare pressed him, and presently he began to sing.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: press, begin, sing · To what, where: Hare
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 (Fox), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 pressed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pressed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Hare | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hare | det |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | conj |
| 7 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 11 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 began | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pressed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sing | mark |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | the Fox and the Hare | Hare | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Fox | presently property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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