Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived within the dominions of the Emperor of China three very clever Thieves.
What happens: live · To what, where: three clever Thieves
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 dominions | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dominions | det |
| 9 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dominions | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 China | case |
| 14 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Emperor | nmod |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Thieves | nummod |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 clever | advmod |
| 17 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Thieves | amod |
| 18 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | three clever Thieves | there | time | within the dominions of the Emperor of China; once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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