Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 15

The Boy at once ran down to the shore of the lake, and taking the Drake in his hands, he tied its wings and legs together, and set it down on the grass beside him.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: run down, take, tie, set down · To what, where: Drake, hands, wings, grass

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 ran	obl
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shore	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taking	cc
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ran	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Drake	det
17	Drake	Drake	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 taking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tied	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tied	nsubj
23	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wings	nmod:poss
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tied	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 legs	cc
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wings	conj
28	together	together	ADV	_	23 tied	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 set	compound:prt
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 grass	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 grass	det
36	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
37	beside	beside	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run down	past	the Boy			to the shore of the lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shore=Result
2	take	gerund	the Boy not said here	the Drake	Boy's hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent drake=Value in hand=Location
3	tie	past	Boy	Drake's wings and legs		together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	set down	infinitive	the Boy not said here	Drake	the grass	beside Boy	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Destination

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 Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 15

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 15