Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 14
It had not gone very far when it put its foot into one of the loops and was caught.
Who acts: Drake · What happens: not go, put, catch · To what, where: foot
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 put | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 loops | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loops | det |
| 16 | loops | loop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | aux:pass |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 put | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Drake | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Drake | Drake's foot | into one of the loops | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal | |||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | Drake not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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