Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 49
The Fairy King, however, insisted upon her carrying out her share of the bargain, so leaving his daughter with the Boy, he again turned himself into a Drake and, flying up into the sky, he disappeared from view.
Who acts: Fairy King, Boy, girl · What happens: insist, carry out, leave, turn, fly up, disappear · To what, where: share, daughter, Boy, Drake, sky, view
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 (Fairy King, Boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 insisted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 insisted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 10 carrying | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 carrying | nmod:poss |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 insisted | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 carrying | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 share | nmod:poss |
| 13 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bargain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bargain | det |
| 16 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 share | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 leaving | advmod |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 insisted | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Boy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Boy | det |
| 24 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 turned | nsubj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 turned | advmod |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 insisted | parataxis |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 turned | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 Drake | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Drake | det |
| 32 | Drake | drake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turned | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 disappeared | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 and | punct |
| 35 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 disappeared | advcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADV | _ | 35 flying | advmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 sky | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sky | det |
| 39 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flying | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flying | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 disappeared | nsubj |
| 42 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 turned | conj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 view | case |
| 44 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 disappeared | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | participle | the Fairy King | however property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry out | gerund | the Fairy King not said here | girl's share of the bargain | girl nmod:poss | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the Fairy King not said here | King's daughter | with the Boy | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient with boy=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | past | Boy | Boy | a Drake | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into drake=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | fly up | gerund | Boy not said here | into the sky result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result | ||||
| 6 | disappear | past | Boy | view | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from view=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | share | girl | the bargain | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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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