Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 8
As they went along night began to fall, and when it was quite dark the Hare began smacking his chops and making sounds as if he was eating something very nice.
Who acts: thumbs, night, two, hare · What happens: go along, begin, fall, be, smack, make · To what, where: chops, sounds, something
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 (thumbs, night, two, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fall | mark |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 dark | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dark | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dark | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 dark | advmod |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 began | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hare | det |
| 17 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dark | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | smacking | smack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chops | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chops | chop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 smacking | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 making | cc |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 smacking | conj |
| 24 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 making | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 eating | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 eating | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 eating | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 eating | aux |
| 29 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 making | advcl |
| 30 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 eating | obj |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 nice | advmod |
| 32 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 something | amod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | thumbs = thumb | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | night not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | two | the Hare nsubj; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | thumbs = thumb not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | smack | gerund | thumbs = thumb not said here | hare's chops | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chop=Patient | ||||
| 7 | make | gerund | thumbs = thumb not said here | sounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | ||||
| 8 | eat | past · progressive | hare | something | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 9 | chop | hare | nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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