Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 52
So the two took up their abode in this fine house and, together with the old father and mother, they lived there happily for several years; and as time passed away the fairy wife became accustomed to her husband’s forbidding appearance, and year by year became more and more attached to him.
Who acts: two, servants, fairy wife, year · What happens: take up, live, pass away, become, accustom, forbid · To what, where: abode, fine house, appearance
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 (two, servants, fairy wife, year), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 abode | nmod:poss |
| 7 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 house | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 together | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 father | amod |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mother | cc |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 father | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 lived | advmod |
| 25 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 23 lived | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 years | case |
| 27 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 years | amod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lived | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 passed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 passed | cc |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 passed | obl |
| 33 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 34 | away | away | ADP | _ | 33 passed | compound:prt |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wife | det |
| 36 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wife | amod |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 became | nsubj |
| 38 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 passed | conj |
| 39 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 became | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 43 ’s | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 husband | nmod:poss |
| 42 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ’s | nsubj |
| 43 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 accustomed | advcl |
| 44 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 ’s | xcomp |
| 45 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 forbidding | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 became | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 became | cc |
| 48 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 became | nsubj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 year | case |
| 50 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 year | nmod |
| 51 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 52 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 became | advmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 attached | cc |
| 54 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 55 attached | advmod |
| 55 | attached | attached | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 became | xcomp |
| 56 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 him | case |
| 57 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 attached | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | the two | servants's abode | this fine house | with the old father and mother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in house=Location | ||
| 2 | live | past | servants = servant | there | year | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | pass away | participle | the two not said here | time | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the fairy wife | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accustom | participle | the fairy wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | forbid | gerund | the fairy wife not said here | appearance | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer appearance=Theme | ||||
| 7 | become | past | year by year | attached property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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