Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 51
The sight so amused the Hare that he leaned back on a handy stone, and laughed to such an extent that he actually split his upper lip.
Who acts: sight, hare · What happens: amuse, learn back, laugh, split · To what, where: Hare, handy stone, extent, upper lip
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 (sight, 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 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amused | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 amused | advmod |
| 4 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hare | det |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 amused | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 leaned | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaned | nsubj |
| 9 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amused | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 leaned | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 13 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stone | amod |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 amused | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 extent | case |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 extent | det:predet |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 extent | det |
| 21 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laughed | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 split | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 split | nsubj |
| 24 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 25 split | advmod |
| 25 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughed | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lip | nmod:poss |
| 27 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lip | amod |
| 28 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 split | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past | the sight | the Hare | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hare=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | learn back | past | hare | a handy stone | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the sight not said here | such extent | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to extent=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | split | past | hare | hare's upper lip | actually property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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