Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 13
“Indeed,” replied Mother Raven, “that is very interesting; but how would it be possible to make the Spider believe that spring had come?”
Who acts: Mother, that, it, spring · What happens: reply, be, make, believe, come · To what, where: Spider · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, that, it, spring), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 interesting | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 interesting | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 interesting | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 interesting | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 interesting | advmod |
| 13 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Mother | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 possible | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 possible | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 possible | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 possible | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 possible | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 possible | cop |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 believe | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 possible | csubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Spider | det |
| 24 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 27 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 believe | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Mother | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | interesting property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | would | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the Spider | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spider=Product | |||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | present | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | come in a quote | past · perfect | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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