Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 43
“Good-morning, Brother Boy,” said the Hare, “would you like to know where there is a fine Raven’s nest, full of eggs?”
Who acts: Hare, you, nest · What happens: say, like, know, be · 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 (Hare, you, nest), 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 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 is | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Raven | det |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Raven | amod |
| 25 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Raven | case |
| 27 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 full | punct |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nest | amod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 eggs | case |
| 31 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 full | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a fine Raven's nest | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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