Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 8
“What are you laughing at this time, Brother Frog?” asked the Crow.
Who acts: you, Crow · What happens: laugh, ask · To what, where: Brother Frog · 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, Crow), 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 | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 laughing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 laughing | nsubj |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Frog | punct |
| 10 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Frog | compound |
| 11 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Crow | det |
| 16 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present · progressive | you | Brother Frog | time | What obj | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Crow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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