Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 35
“Very well, Brother Hare, I think that is an excellent idea of yours, but how is it to be done?”
Who acts: I, that, idea · What happens: think, be, do · To what, where: excellent idea · 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 (I, that, idea), 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 | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 Brother | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 think | vocative |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Brother | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brother | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 idea | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 idea | cop |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 idea | det |
| 13 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 idea | amod |
| 14 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 yours | case |
| 16 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 idea | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 done | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 done | advmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 how | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 how | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 think | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | Brother vocative | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | a excellent idea | of yours | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | idea | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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