Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 39
As the meal proceeded the Emperor grew more and more annoyed, and complained of the insufficiency of the food which had been prepared for him.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: proceed, grow, complain, prepare · To what, where: food
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 (Emperor), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 meal | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meal | det |
| 3 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proceeded | obl |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | ccomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 grew | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 annoyed | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 annoyed | advmod |
| 11 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 more | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 complained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 complained | cc |
| 14 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 insufficiency | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 insufficiency | det |
| 17 | insufficiency | insufficiency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 complained | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 food | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 food | det |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 insufficiency | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prepared | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 prepared | aux:pass |
| 24 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 food | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prepared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | as the meal | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the Emperor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | past | of the insufficiency of the food | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the food | for Emperor | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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