Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 20
By the Emperor’s orders this nest was watched by an attendant night and day, in order that no one should interfere with the eggs, and the pea-hen herself was so cross that she would not allow anyone to approach her except the man who fed her.
Who acts: orders, one, pea hen, China, man, Emperor · What happens: watch, interfere, be, not allow, approach, feed · To what, where: nest, order, anyone, China
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 (orders, one, pea hen, China), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 orders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Emperor | case |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watched | obl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 nest | det |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watched | aux:pass |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 12 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 night | compound |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 day | cc |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 night | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 order | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 interfere | mark |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 interfere | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 interfere | aux |
| 23 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 order | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 eggs | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eggs | det |
| 26 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 interfere | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cross | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cross | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hen | det |
| 30 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hen | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 pea | punct |
| 32 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cross | nsubj |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 hen | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 cross | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 cross | advmod |
| 36 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 watched | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 allow | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 allow | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 allow | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 allow | advmod |
| 41 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cross | advcl |
| 42 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 allow | iobj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 approach | mark |
| 44 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 allow | xcomp |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 approach | obj |
| 46 | except | except | ADP | _ | 48 man | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 man | det |
| 48 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 approach | obl |
| 49 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 fed | nsubj |
| 50 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 man | acl:relcl |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fed | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · passive | the Emperor's orders | this nest | order | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | interfere | should | no one | order not said here | with the eggs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the pea hen China | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not allow | would | China | anyone | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | approach not said to happen | to-infinitive | China not said here | China | except the man | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | feed | past | the man | China | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | order | the Emperor | nom order «communication 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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