Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 53
And so saying he took from his wallet the pea-hen’s eggs, and laid them on the throne.
Who acts: gift · What happens: say, take, lay · To what, where: wallet, Thieves, throne · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gift), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saying | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saying | advmod |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wallet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hen | det |
| 10 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hen | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pea | punct |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 hen | case |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wallet | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 throne | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 throne | det |
| 21 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | gift | gift's wallet the pea hen's eggs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from wallet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | gift not said here | Thieves = thief | the throne | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on throne=Destination |
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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