Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 19
“As soon as I left you yesterday,” began the first Thief, “I went into the royal farm adjoining the palace, and there I found one of the Emperor’s pea-hens sitting upon her nest, and hatching a clutch of eggs, which was calculated to produce a breed of the very finest peacocks.
Who acts: Thieves, royal farm, pea hens · What happens: leave, begin, go, adjoin, find, sit · To what, where: you, first Thief, royal farm, palace, one, nest · 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 (Thieves, royal farm, pea hens), 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 | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 left | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 left | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 left | obj |
| 8 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thief | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 Thief | amod |
| 14 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 farm | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 farm | det |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 farm | amod |
| 22 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 farm | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 adjoining | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 found | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 found | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 hens | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Emperor | det |
| 34 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 hens | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Emperor | case |
| 36 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hens | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 pea | punct |
| 38 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 one | nmod |
| 39 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 hens | acl |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 nest | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 nest | nmod:poss |
| 42 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sitting | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hatching | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 hatching | cc |
| 45 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 found | advcl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 clutch | det |
| 47 | clutch | clutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hatching | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 eggs | case |
| 49 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 clutch | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 calculated | punct |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 calculated | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 calculated | aux:pass |
| 53 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 eggs | acl:relcl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 produce | mark |
| 55 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 calculated | xcomp |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 breed | det |
| 57 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 produce | obj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 peacocks | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 peacocks | det |
| 60 | very | very | ADV | _ | 61 finest | advmod |
| 61 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 62 peacocks | amod |
| 62 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 breed | nmod |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | Thieves = thief | you | yesterday | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 2 | begin | past | the first Thief | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | Thieves = thief | the royal farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | adjoin in a quote | gerund | the royal farm not said here | the palace | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | past | Thieves = thief | one of the Emperor's pea hens | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 6 | sit in a quote | gerund | the Emperor's pea hens not said here | China's nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon nest=Location | ||||
| 7 | hatch in a quote | gerund | Thieves = thief not said here | a clutch of eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent clutch=Product | ||||
| 8 | calculate in a quote | past · passive | eggs | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | produce in a quote | to-infinitive | a breed of the finest peacocks | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breed=Result | |||||
| 10 | clutch in a quote | eggs | nom clutch «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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