Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 47
They descended swiftly until they touched the ground, where they were at once transformed into the Fairy King and his beautiful daughter.
Who acts: orders · What happens: descend, touch, transform · To what, where: ground, orders
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 (orders), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 descended | nsubj |
| 2 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 descended | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 touched | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 descended | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 transformed | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 transformed | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 transformed | aux:pass |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 transformed | obl |
| 15 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ground | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 18 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | compound |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 transformed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 daughter | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 daughter | amod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 King | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | orders = order | swiftly property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | orders = order | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | transform | past · passive | orders = order | into the Fairy King and Boy's beautiful daughter result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into king=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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