Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 19
“Don’t you find it cold, Uncle Tiger? shall I light you a fire?”
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: not do, find, light · To what, where: Uncle Tiger, eye, fire, you
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 (you, Hare), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 light | parataxis |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tiger | punct |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tiger | compound |
| 10 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 light | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 light | nsubj |
| 14 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 light | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 light | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive | Uncle Tiger | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | you | eye | cold property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | light in a quote | shall | the Hare = hare | a fire | you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary fire=Product |
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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