Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 57

When the Emperor found that these were the soles of his Prime Minister’s boots, and how they had been removed, he was very much amused, and laughed heartily.

Who acts: Emperor, these · What happens: find, be, remove, laugh · To what, where: soles · 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 (Emperor, these), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emperor	det
3	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 amused	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 soles	mark
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 soles	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 soles	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 soles	det
9	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 boots	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 boots	nmod:poss
12	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	13 Minister	compound
13	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 boots	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Minister	case
15	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 soles	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 removed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 removed	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 removed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 removed	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 removed	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 removed	aux:pass
22	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 amused	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 amused	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 amused	advmod
28	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 laughed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 laughed	cc
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 amused	conj
32	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	31 laughed	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Emperor			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	these	the soles	of Emperor's boots	tree rules
3	remove	past · perfect · passive		soles = sole		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	Emperor		amused property	tree rules
5	laugh	past	Emperor not said here		heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 57

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 57