Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 45
The girl wept bitterly on hearing this, but nevertheless she prepared to carry out her father’s orders, and got ready a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels to take with her.
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: weep, hear, prepare, carry out, get, take · To what, where: this, orders, large stock, beautiful clothes
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 (girl, father), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 hearing | mark |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wept | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prepared | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 prepared | cc |
| 10 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 12 prepared | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prepared | nsubj |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 prepared | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carry | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 orders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stock | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stock | amod |
| 26 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 clothes | case |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 clothes | amod |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 stock | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gold | cc |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gold | amod |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clothes | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 silver | cc |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gold | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 jewels | cc |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 clothes | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 take | mark |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 got | advcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the girl | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the girl not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past | girl | nevertheless property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | carry out not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl's father's orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | past | the girl not said here | a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | with girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | order | girl's father | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | stock | beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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