Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 19
“I beg of you not to kill me, my good boy,” said he, “for you must know I am not in reality a Drake as I appear to be, but I am a fairy King just come from the region of the gods.
Who acts: Boy, you, fairy King · What happens: beg, not kill, say, know, not be, appear · To what, where: good boy, Boy, reality, fairy King, region · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, fairy King), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 beg | obl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 kill | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beg | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beg | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 reality | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 reality | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 reality | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 reality | case |
| 28 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Drake | det |
| 30 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 reality | appos |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 appear | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 appear | nsubj |
| 33 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 be | mark |
| 35 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 appear | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 come | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 come | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 King | nsubj |
| 39 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 King | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 King | det |
| 41 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 King | amod |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 come | nsubj |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 come | advmod |
| 44 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 region | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 region | det |
| 47 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 come | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 gods | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 gods | det |
| 50 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 region | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | Boy | my good boy | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | Boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | Boy | reality | a Drake appos | tree rules | |||
| 6 | appear in a quote | present | Boy | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | Boy | a fairy King | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | come in a quote | present | a fairy King | the region of the gods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from region=Initial_Location |
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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