Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 6
The Crow did not quite like this, and thinking it as well to be on the safe side she hopped off to another corner of the roof near to where a gutter led away the rain water by means of a small hole in the parapet and a wooden spout.
Who acts: Crow, Frog, gutter, thinking · What happens: do, think, be, hop off, lead away, mean · To what, where: this, death, safe side, rain water · 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 (Crow, Frog, gutter, thinking), 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 | 2 Crow | det |
| 2 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 this | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 this | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 means | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 means | cc |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 means | csubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinking | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 thinking | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 side | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 side | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 side | det |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 side | amod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinking | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hopped | nsubj |
| 21 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 side | acl:relcl |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 hopped | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 corner | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 corner | det |
| 25 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hopped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 roof | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roof | det |
| 28 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 corner | nmod |
| 29 | near | near | ADV | _ | 31 where | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 where | case |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 hopped | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 gutter | det |
| 33 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 where | nsubj |
| 34 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 gutter | acl |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 led | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 water | det |
| 37 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 water | compound |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 led | obj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 means | case |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 hole | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hole | det |
| 43 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 hole | amod |
| 44 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 means | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 parapet | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 parapet | det |
| 47 | parapet | parapet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hole | nmod |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 spout | cc |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 spout | det |
| 50 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 spout | amod |
| 51 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 parapet | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Crow | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | death | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the safe side | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hop off | past | Frog | the safe side not said here | to another corner of the roof | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | lead away | participle | a gutter not said here | the rain water | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 6 | mean | present | thinking | of a small hole in the parapet and a wooden spout | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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