Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 26
As he passed to and fro in the crowd, I succeeded in cutting the soles off his new boots without his having any idea of what had happened.
Who acts: line, I · What happens: pass, fro, succeed, cut, have, happen · To what, where: crowd, soles, idea
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 (line, I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 succeeded | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fro | cc |
| 6 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passed | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 crowd | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crowd | det |
| 9 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fro | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 succeeded | nsubj |
| 12 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 cutting | mark |
| 14 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 succeeded | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soles | det |
| 16 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cutting | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 boots | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 boots | nmod:poss |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boots | amod |
| 20 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cutting | obl |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 having | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 having | nsubj |
| 23 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cutting | advcl |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 idea | det |
| 25 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 having | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 what | case |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 idea | nmod |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 happened | aux |
| 29 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | line | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | line not said here | the crowd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past | I | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cut | gerund | I not said here | the soles | off line's new boots | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sole=Patient off boot=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | line | any idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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