Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 47
A few minutes later the great doors leading to the audience chamber were thrown open, and a herald appearing upon the threshold proclaimed “Silence.”
Who acts: great doors, herald · What happens: lead, throw, appear, proclaim · To what, where: great doors, threshold, Silence
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 (great doors, herald), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 thrown | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doors | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doors | amod |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 doors | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 11 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chamber | compound |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leading | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thrown | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proclaimed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 proclaimed | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 herald | det |
| 19 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 20 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 herald | acl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 threshold | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 threshold | det |
| 23 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appearing | obl |
| 24 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | conj |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Silence | punct |
| 26 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proclaimed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | the great doors not said here | to the audience chamber | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=Patient | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | the great doors | late, open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | gerund | a herald not said here | the threshold | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon threshold=Location | ||||
| 4 | proclaim | past | a herald | Silence | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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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