Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 27
When the Wolf caught sight of him he was much pleased and began to lick his chops in anticipation.
Who acts: Wolf, Kyang · What happens: catch, be, begin, lick, sight, chop · To what, where: sight, chops, anticipation, Kyang
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 (Wolf, Kyang), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 caught | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | advcl |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sight | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | cop |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lick | mark |
| 15 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chops | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chops | chop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lick | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 anticipation | case |
| 19 | anticipation | anticipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lick | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the Wolf | sight of Kyang | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kyang | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Kyang not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lick | to-infinitive | Kyang not said here | Kyang's chops | anticipation | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chop=Source | |||
| 5 | sight | Kyang | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | chop | Kyang | nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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