Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 23
The best thing would be for you to come down here to eat me.”
Who acts: best thing · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: me
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 (best thing), 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 thing | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | cop |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 here | advmod |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the best thing | here | you nsubj; come property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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