Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 41
The Boy agreed to this condition, and when all the details had been satisfactorily arranged he cut the cords which bound the Drake and let him go.
Who acts: Boy, details, cords · What happens: agree, be, cut, bound, let, go · To what, where: cords, Drake, Boy
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, details, cords), 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 | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 condition | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 condition | det |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 arranged | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 details | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 details | det |
| 12 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arranged | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arranged | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 arranged | cop |
| 15 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 16 arranged | advmod |
| 16 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | advcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cords | det |
| 20 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 bound | nsubj |
| 22 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cords | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Drake | det |
| 24 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bound | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 let | cc |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 bound | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Boy | to this condition | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | all details | arrange, satisfactorily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | Boy | the cords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Product | ||||
| 4 | bound | present | the cords | the Drake | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location drake=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | the cords not said here | Boy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | Boy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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