Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 15
“I shall be very glad of your company.”
Who acts: Brother Fox · What happens: be
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 (Brother Fox), 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 | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 company | nmod:poss |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | Brother Fox = fox | of your company; glad property | tree rules |
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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