Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 13
“I,” replied the first Thief, “can withdraw the eggs from under a sitting hen without disturbing her.”
Who acts: I, first Thief · What happens: reply, withdraw, sit, disturb · To what, where: first Thief, eggs, China · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I, first Thief), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Thief | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Thief | amod |
| 8 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withdraw | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 withdraw | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 withdraw | aux |
| 12 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Thief | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eggs | det |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 withdraw | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hen | case |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 hen | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hen | det |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hen | amod |
| 19 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 withdraw | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 disturbing | mark |
| 21 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 withdraw | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disturbing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | the first Thief | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic | ||||
| 2 | withdraw in a quote | can | the first Thief not said here | the eggs | from a sitting hen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from hen=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sit in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | disturb in a quote | gerund | the first Thief not said here | China | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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