Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 20
The Boy said, “Yes,” and the Barber proceeded to cut his hair.
Who acts: Boy, Barber · What happens: say, proceed, cut · To what, where: hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, Barber), 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 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proceeded | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 proceeded | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 Barber | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Barber | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Barber | det |
| 11 | Barber | Barber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 proceeded | nsubj |
| 12 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cut | mark |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 proceeded | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | proceed | past | the Barber | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cut | to-infinitive | the Barber not said here | Boy's hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product |
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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