Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 35
“I will not take the eldest girl, for fear she should be too old, nor the youngest, for fear she should be too young.
Who acts: Boy, girl · What happens: not take, be · To what, where: eldest girl
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, girl), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 old | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 old | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 youngest | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 youngest | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youngest | det |
| 20 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 take | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 young | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fear | case |
| 23 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 young | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 young | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 young | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 young | cop |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 young | advmod |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 youngest | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take in a quote | future | Boy | the eldest girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | girl | for fear; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | girl | for fear; young property | tree rules |
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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