Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 11
And it continued to do so for several days, the Boy always watching its behaviour with increased interest.
Who acts: Drake, Boy · What happens: continue, do, watch, increase · To what, where: behaviour
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drake, Boy), 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 continued | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watching | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Boy | det |
| 12 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 watching | advmod |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 continued | advcl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 interest | case |
| 18 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 interest | amod |
| 19 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Drake | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Drake not said here | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the Boy | Drake's behaviour | with increased interest; always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behaviour=Theme | |||
| 4 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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