Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 40

The Ravens thought this was a good idea, and flying down, they perched on the Horses’ backs, and began to dig their beaks into the sore places.

Who acts: Ravens, this · What happens: think, be, fly down, perch, begin, dig · To what, where: good idea, backs, beaks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ravens, this), 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 Ravens	det
2	Ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 idea	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flying	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flying	cc
11	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thought	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 flying	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 perched	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 perched	nsubj
15	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 backs	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Horses	det
18	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 backs	nmod:poss
19	’	's	PART	_	18 Horses	case
20	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 perched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 perched	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dig	mark
25	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beaks	nmod:poss
27	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dig	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 places	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 places	det
30	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 places	amod
31	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dig	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Ravens				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	this	a good idea			tree rules
3	fly down	gerund	the Ravens not said here			down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	perch	past	Ravens = raven		the Horses's backs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
5	begin	past	Ravens = raven not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dig	to-infinitive	Ravens = raven not said here	backs's beaks		into the sore places	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=Instrument into place=Patient

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, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 40

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 40