Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 4

Uncle Wolf,” said he, “it is no good your eating me now; this is the spring time and after the hard winter I am still very thin.

Who acts: Uncle Wolf, approach, your, this, I · What happens: say, be, eat · To what, where: me, spring time · 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 (Uncle Wolf, approach, your, this), 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	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wolf	compound
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 good	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 good	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eating	nsubj
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 good	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eating	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 eating	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 time	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 time	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	compound
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thin	cc
24	after	after	ADP	_	27 winter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 winter	det
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 winter	amod
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thin	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 thin	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 thin	cop
30	still	still	ADV	_	32 thin	advmod
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 thin	advmod
32	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Uncle Wolf			Wolf nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	approach			good property	tree rules
3	eat	gerund	your	me	now		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is a	present	this	the spring time			tree rules
5	is	present	I		still; winter	thin 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 4