Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 68
When the three Thieves heard these words they were greatly frightened, and bowing down before the Emperor they awaited his commands.
Who acts: three Thieves, words, Thieves, Emperor · What happens: hear, frighten, bow down, await, command · To what, where: words, Thieves, commands · 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 (three Thieves, words, Thieves, Emperor), 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 | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thieves | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Thieves | nummod |
| 4 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 frightened | aux:pass |
| 10 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 11 frightened | advmod |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 words | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 awaited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 awaited | cc |
| 14 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 awaited | csubj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 bowing | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 Emperor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bowing | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 awaited | nsubj |
| 20 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 commands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 awaited | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the three Thieves | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | this words not said here | Thieves = thief | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bow down | gerund | before the Emperor | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before emperor=Location | ||||
| 4 | await | past | Thieves = thief | Emperor's commands | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | command | Emperor | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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