Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 20
“Oh! really, Brother Wolf,” said the Hare, “I wish you would allow me to come too.
Who acts: Brother Wolf, you · What happens: say, wish, allow, come · To what, where: Brother Wolf · 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 (Brother Wolf, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 Wolf | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wolf | compound |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wolf | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wolf | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 allow | aux |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allow | xcomp |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother Wolf | the Hare nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Brother Wolf = wolf | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | allow in a quote | would | you | Brother Wolf = wolf | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | 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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