Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 43
The Drake flew far up into the blue sky until he arrived at the country of the gods, where he changed at once into the form and raiment of the King of the Fairies.
Who acts: Drake, Boy · What happens: fly, arrive, change · To what, where: blue sky, country, form
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 (Drake, Boy), 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 Drake | det |
| 2 | Drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 up | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sky | amod |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gods | det |
| 18 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 country | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 changed | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 changed | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 changed | nsubj |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arrived | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 changed | obl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 form | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 form | det |
| 27 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 raiment | cc |
| 29 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 form | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 raiment | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Fairies | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Fairies | det |
| 35 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 King | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Drake | into the blue sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Boy | the country of the gods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Boy | into the form and raiment of the King of the Fairies result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into form=Result |
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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