Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 21
To the Barber’s astonishment, each hair, as it fell to the ground, immediately turned into diamonds, pearls, and other jewels; and when he proceeded to pare the Boy’s nails, each paring, as it touched the ground, became a beautiful turquoise.
Who acts: hair, barber · What happens: fall, turn, proceed, pare, touch, become · To what, where: astonishment, other jewels, diamonds, nails, ground, beautiful turquoise
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 (hair, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Barber | det |
| 3 | Barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Barber | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hair | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hair | det |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fell | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 diamonds | case |
| 20 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pearls | punct |
| 22 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 diamonds | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 jewels | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jewels | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jewels | amod |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 proceeded | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 proceeded | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 proceeded | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 proceeded | nsubj |
| 31 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 pare | mark |
| 33 | pare | pare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 proceeded | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Boy | det |
| 35 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 nails | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Boy | case |
| 37 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 pare | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 paring | punct |
| 39 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 paring | det |
| 40 | paring | paring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 nails | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 touched | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 touched | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 touched | nsubj |
| 44 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 proceeded | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ground | det |
| 46 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 touched | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 became | punct |
| 48 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 touched | conj |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 turquoise | det |
| 50 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 turquoise | amod |
| 51 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 became | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | hair | the Barber's astonishment and each hair | to the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to astonishment=Initial_Location to ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | turn | participle | other jewels | diamonds and pearls | immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into diamond=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | proceed | past | barber | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pare | to-infinitive | barber not said here | the Boy's nails and each paring | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | ||||
| 5 | touch | past | hair | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | become | past | hair not said here | a beautiful turquoise | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | astonish | the Barber | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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