Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 33
Would you prefer the eldest, or the youngest, or the middle one?”
Who acts: you · What happens: prefer · To what, where: eldest
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 (you), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prefer | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 prefer | nsubj |
| 3 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eldest | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 prefer | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 youngest | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 youngest | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youngest | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 eldest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youngest | appos |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 prefer | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | would | you | the eldest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eld=Stimulus |
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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