Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 12
“Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt.
Who acts: Frog, your · What happens: notice, seem, bill · To what, where: bill
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog, your), 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 | _ | 11 seems | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 notice | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Crow | punct |
| 4 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Crow | compound |
| 5 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 notice | nsubj |
| 8 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seems | advcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bill | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 notice | obj |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 blunt | advmod |
| 13 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seems | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice in a quote | present | the Frog = frog | your bill | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | blunt property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bill in a quote | your | nom bill «communication 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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