Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 12

“That is very pleasant for you, Brother Wolf,” answered the Fox; “but as a Kyang is such a large animal you will scarcely be able to eat him all by yourself.

Who acts: That, Fox, Kyang, you · What happens: be, answer, eat · To what, where: large animal, Kyang · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Fox, Kyang, you), 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 pleasant	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pleasant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 pleasant	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Brother	punct
9	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pleasant	conj
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Brother	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fox	det
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 able	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 able	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 able	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 animal	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 animal	det
21	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 animal	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 animal	cop
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 animal	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 animal	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 animal	amod
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 able	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 able	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 able	aux
29	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	31 able	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	cop
31	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleasant	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 eat	mark
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 able	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eat	obj
35	all	all	ADV	_	37 yourself	advmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 yourself	case
37	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 eat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		for you; Brother conj; pleasant property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Fox			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Kyang	a large animal		tree rules
4	is in a quote	future	you		able, scarcely property	tree rules
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Kyang	by yourself	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 12