Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 95

The Wolf, too, made a leap towards the window, but the great jar round his neck was too broad to go through the narrow opening, and he fell back into the room below.

Who acts: Wolf, great jar · What happens: make, be, go, fall back · To what, where: leap, narrow opening, room

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, great jar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 leap	det
8	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 broad	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 broad	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jar	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 jar	amod
16	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broad	nsubj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jar	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 broad	cop
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 broad	advmod
22	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 broad	advcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	28 opening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 opening	det
27	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 opening	amod
28	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 fell	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 room	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 room	det
36	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
37	below	below	ADV	_	36 room	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Wolf	a leap		towards the window	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Product
2	is	past	the great jar round Wolf's neck			broad property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the great jar round Wolf's neck not said here		the narrow opening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through opening=Initial_Location
4	fall back	past	Wolf			into the room result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into room=Result

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 95