Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 4

And so he passed his life very happily until, when he reached the age of fifteen, he began to think he should like to marry a wife as other young men did, but he feared that owing to his deformity no girl would ever look at him.

Who acts: child, other young men, girl · What happens: pass, reach, begin, think, like, marry · To what, where: life, age, wife, deformity · 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 (child, other young men, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 passed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 happily	advmod
8	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
13	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 age	det
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 fifteen	case
17	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 age	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 like	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 like	aux
25	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 like	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wife	det
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 marry	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 feared	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 feared	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 feared	nsubj
38	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 owing	mark
40	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 feared	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 deformity	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 deformity	nmod:poss
43	deformity	deformity	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 owing	obl
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 girl	det
45	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 look	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 look	aux
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 look	advmod
48	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 owing	advcl
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 look	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	child	child's life		happily property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory
2	reach	past	child	the age of fifteen			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	begin	past	child				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	child not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like	should	child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here	a wife			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
7	do	past	other young men				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	fear	past	child				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	owe	gerund	child not said here			to child's deformity goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to deformity=Goal
10	look	would	no girl		ever	at child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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 4

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 4