Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 11
“I have taken it out and eaten it; it is very nice, and it soon grows again.”
Who acts: Hare, eye · What happens: take out, eat, be, grow · To what, where: eye
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, eye), 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 | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eaten | cc |
| 8 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eaten | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 nice | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nice | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nice | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 nice | advmod |
| 14 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grows | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grows | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 grows | advmod |
| 19 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nice | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 grows | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out in a quote | present · perfect | the Hare = hare | eye | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | participle | the Hare = hare not said here | eye | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | eye | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present | eye | again | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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