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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 54

The young Man, however, had become so accustomed to her presence that he could hardly believe that the Fairy King’s words would come true and that he should really be deprived of his wife when the appointed time arrived.

Who acts: young Man, two, words, Fairy King · What happens: become, accustom, believe, come, deprive, appoint · To what, where: presence, two · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young Man, two, words, Fairy King), 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

detamodnsubjpunctadvmodpunctauxadvmodxcompcasenmod:possoblmarknsubjauxadvmodaclmarkdetcompoundnmod:posscasensubjauxccompxcompccmarknsubjauxadvmodaux:passadvclcasenmod:possoblmarkdetamodobl:unmarkedconjpunctrootTheDETyoungADJManPROPN,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCThadAUXbecomeVERBsoADVaccustomedVERBtoADPherPRONpresenceNOUNthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXhardlyADVbelieveVERBthatSCONJtheDETFairyPROPNKingPROPN’sPARTwordsNOUNwouldAUXcomeVERBtrueADJandCCONJthatSCONJhePRONshouldAUXreallyADVbeAUXdeprivedVERBofADPhisPRONwifeNOUNwhenSCONJtheDETappointedVERBtimeNOUNarrivedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Mandet
2youngyoungADJDegree=Pos3 Manamod
3ManManPROPNNumber=Sing8 becomensubj
4,,PUNCT_3 Manpunct
5howeverhoweverADV_8 becomeadvmod
6,,PUNCT_5 howeverpunct
7hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 becomeaux
8becomebecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
9sosoADV_10 accustomedadvmod
10accustomedaccustomVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 becomexcomp
11totoADP_13 presencecase
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 presencenmod:poss
13presencepresenceNOUNNumber=Sing10 accustomedobl
14thatthatSCONJ_18 believemark
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 believensubj
16couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin18 believeaux
17hardlyhardlyADV_18 believeadvmod
18believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf13 presenceacl
19thatthatSCONJ_26 comemark
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Kingdet
21FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing22 Kingcompound
22KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 wordsnmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 Kingcase
24wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur26 comensubj
25wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 comeaux
26comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf18 believeccomp
27truetrueADJDegree=Pos26 comexcomp
28andandCCONJ_42 arrivedcc
29thatthatSCONJ_34 deprivedmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 deprivednsubj
31shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin34 deprivedaux
32reallyreallyADV_34 deprivedadvmod
33bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf34 deprivedaux:pass
34depriveddepriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass42 arrivedadvcl
35ofofADP_37 wifecase
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 wifenmod:poss
37wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing34 deprivedobl
38whenwhenSCONJ_42 arrivedmark
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 timedet
40appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 timeamod
41timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing42 arrivedobl:unmarked
42arrivedarriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 comeconj
43..PUNCT_8 becomepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1becomepast · perfectthe young Manhowever propertytree rules
2accustomparticiplethe young Man not said hereto wife's presencetree rules
3believecouldtwowife's presence not said herehardly propertytree rules
4comewouldthe Fairy King's wordstrue propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5depriveshould · passivetwoof two's wifevn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of wife=Theme
6appointparticiplevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7arriveparticiplethe Fairy King's words not said heretimevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8wordthe Fairy Kingnom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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