Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 42

They rushed hither and thither, between the kitchens and dining-halls, upbraiding the scullions and other domestics for their carelessness, and preparing the most elaborate and copious dishes for the Emperor’s table.

Who acts: officials · What happens: rush, upbraid, prepare · To what, where: kitchens, scullions, elaborate dishes

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 (officials), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hither	hither	ADV	_	2 rushed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thither	cc
5	thither	thither	ADV	_	3 hither	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kitchens	punct
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 kitchens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchens	det
9	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rushed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 halls	cc
11	dining	dining	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 halls	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dining	punct
13	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kitchens	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 upbraiding	punct
15	upbraiding	upbraid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 scullions	det
17	scullions	scullion	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 upbraiding	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 domestics	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 domestics	amod
20	domestics	domestic	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 scullions	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 carelessness	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 carelessness	nmod:poss
23	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 upbraiding	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 preparing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 preparing	cc
26	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 upbraiding	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dishes	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 elaborate	advmod
29	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dishes	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 copious	cc
31	copious	copious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 elaborate	conj
32	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 preparing	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 table	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Emperor	det
35	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 table	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Emperor	case
37	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dishes	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	officials = official		the kitchens and dining halls; thither	hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between kitchen=Trajectory
2	upbraid	gerund	officials = official not said here	the scullions and other domestics		for officials's carelessness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent scullion=Theme for carelessness=Attribute
3	prepare	gerund	officials = official not said here	the elaborate dishes		for the Emperor's table	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dish=Product for table=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 42