Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 94
As soon as they heard the disturbance the Hare and the Fox, carrying their provisions with them, hopped quietly out of the window and made off quickly for their homes.
Who acts: men · What happens: hear, carry, hop, make off, provide · To what, where: disturbance, provisions, window
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 (men), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 disturbance | det |
| 7 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hare | det |
| 9 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 disturbance | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Fox | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Hare | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 provisions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carrying | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carrying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hopped | punct |
| 20 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 hopped | advmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hopped | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hopped | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 made | compound:prt |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 homes | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 homes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | men = man | the disturbance | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer disturbance=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | men = man not said here | men's provisions | with men = man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme | |||
| 3 | hop | past | men = man not said here | the window | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out window=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | make off | participle | men = man not said here | for men's homes; quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for home=Asset | ||||
| 5 | provide | men = man | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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