Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 96

Again he jumped and again he fell back; and he was still jumping and falling when the people of the house rushed in and soon despatched him with sticks and stones.

Who acts: Wolf, people · What happens: jump, fall back, fall, rush in, despatch · To what, where: Wolf

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, people), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 jumped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
5	again	again	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 jumping	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 jumping	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 jumping	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jumping	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 jumping	advmod
14	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 jumped	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 falling	cc
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 jumping	conj
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 rushed	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rushed	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 people	nmod
23	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 falling	advcl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 rushed	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 despatched	cc
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 despatched	advmod
27	despatched	despatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 despatched	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 sticks	case
30	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 despatched	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stones	cc
32	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sticks	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	Wolf		again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall back	past	Wolf		again		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	past · progressive	Wolf		still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	gerund	Wolf not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rush in	past	the people of the house				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	despatch	past	Wolf not said here	Wolf		with sticks and stones; soon 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 96