Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 42
The Hare then hopped on a little further down the road and came upon a Boy tending Sheep.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: hop, come, tend · To what, where: Sheep
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), 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 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 further | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 further | obl |
| 8 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 further | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hopped | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Boy | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | tending | tend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 18 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tending | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | the Hare | then | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Hare not said here | upon a Boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon boy=Location | ||||
| 3 | tend | gerund | the Hare not said here | Sheep | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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