Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 17
After proceeding a short distance they came across a Hare.
Who acts: hills · What happens: proceed, come · To what, where: short distance
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 (hills), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 proceeding | mark |
| 2 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeding | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 Hare | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | gerund | a short distance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | hills = hill | a short distance not said here | across a Hare | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=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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