Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 24
But a Tibetan audience is one of the best imaginable, and their open sympathy and appreciation soon melt the frosts of reserve, and the words flow freely.
Who acts: Tibetan audience, open sympathy, words · What happens: be, melt, flow · To what, where: one, frosts
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tibetan audience, open sympathy, words), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 one | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 audience | det |
| 3 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 audience | compound |
| 4 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 imaginable | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 imaginable | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 imaginable | amod |
| 10 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 melt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 melt | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sympathy | amod |
| 15 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 melt | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appreciation | cc |
| 17 | appreciation | appreciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sympathy | conj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 melt | advmod |
| 19 | melt | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 frosts | det |
| 21 | frosts | frost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 melt | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 reserve | case |
| 23 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 frosts | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flow | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 words | det |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flow | nsubj |
| 28 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 melt | parataxis |
| 29 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 28 flow | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Tibetan audience | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | melt | present | disclaimers's open sympathy and appreciation | the frosts of reserve | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient frost=Result | |||
| 3 | flow | present | the words | freely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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