Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 13

Before you begin to eat me don’t you think it would be a good thing to sharpen it a little.

Who acts: you, bill · What happens: begin, eat, not do, think, be, sharpen · To what, where: me, good thing, bill · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, bill), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 begin	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 begin	nsubj
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 think	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begin	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begin	xcomp
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thing	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thing	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sharpen	mark
18	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thing	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sharpen	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sharpen	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	would	bill	a good thing		tree rules
6	sharpen	to-infinitive	you not said here	bill	a little obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 Frog and the Crow., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 13