Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 6
Now it happened one day that these three Thieves met together in a country inn, and entering into conversation with one another, began to exchange confidences.
Who acts: it, three Thieves · What happens: happen, meet, enter, begin, exchange · To what, where: one day, country inn, conversation, confidences
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 (it, three Thieves), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 met | obj |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Thieves | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Thieves | nummod |
| 9 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 met | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inn | compound |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entering | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 entering | cc |
| 18 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 conversation | case |
| 20 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entering | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 entering | obl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | fixed |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 exchange | mark |
| 27 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | confidences | confidence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 exchange | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | this three Thieves | one day | a country inn | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | enter | gerund | conversation | with one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | exchange | to-infinitive | confidences | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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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