Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 43
The other two thought this was a very good plan, and so they threw the slip-knot over the Kyang’s neck, and the Wolf and the Fox put their heads through the smaller loops.
Who acts: other two, this, end, Wolf · What happens: think, be, throw, put · To what, where: good plan, slip knot, neck, heads, smaller loops · 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 (other two, this, end, Wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 two | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 plan | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plan | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plan | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plan | amod |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threw | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 threw | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knot | det |
| 17 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knot | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 slip | punct |
| 19 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kyang | det |
| 22 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Kyang | case |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wolf | det |
| 28 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Fox | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fox | det |
| 31 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Wolf | conj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 heads | nmod:poss |
| 34 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | obj |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 loops | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 loops | det |
| 37 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 loops | amod |
| 38 | loops | loop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the other two | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a good plan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | end | the slip knot | the Kyang's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knot=Theme over neck=Destination | |||
| 4 | put | past | the Wolf and the Fox | end's heads | the smaller loops | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through loop=Destination |
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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