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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Man | amod |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 become | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Man | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 become | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 accustomed | advmod |
| 10 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 become | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accustomed | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 believe | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | aux |
| 17 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 18 believe | advmod |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 presence | acl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 21 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 King | compound |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 words | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 believe | ccomp |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 come | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 arrived | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 deprived | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deprived | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 deprived | aux |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 34 deprived | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 deprived | aux:pass |
| 34 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 arrived | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 wife | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deprived | obl |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 arrived | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 come | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | the young Man | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accustom | participle | the young Man not said here | to wife's presence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | could | two | wife's presence not said here | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | would | the Fairy King's words | true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deprive | should · passive | two | of two's wife | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of wife=Theme | ||||
| 6 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | arrive | participle | the Fairy King's words not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | word | the Fairy King | nom 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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