Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 56

He slept soundly all night, and when he awoke in the morning and sat up and looked about him, what was his astonishment and horror to discover that, instead of lying upon his fine couch in his magnificent palace, with troops of servants ready to wait upon him, he was reposing upon the bare ground under the open sky, on a bleak hillside near to the spot where he had first conversed with the Fairy King.

Who acts: word · What happens: sleep, awake, sit up, look, be, discover · To what, where: astonishment, that, magnificent palace, open sky

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 (word), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	2 slept	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 awoke	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 awoke	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 awoke	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awoke	nsubj
10	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awoke	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awoke	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 astonishment	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 astonishment	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 astonishment	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 astonishment	nmod:poss
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 horror	cc
27	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 astonishment	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 discover	mark
29	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sat	advcl
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 discover	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lying	punct
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 lying	mark
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 discover	advcl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 couch	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 couch	nmod:poss
37	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 couch	amod
38	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lying	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 palace	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 palace	nmod:poss
41	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 palace	amod
42	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lying	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 troops	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 troops	case
45	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	34 lying	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 servants	case
47	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 troops	nmod
48	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 troops	amod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 wait	mark
50	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 ready	xcomp
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 wait	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 reposing	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 reposing	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 reposing	aux
56	reposing	repose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slept	advcl
57	upon	upon	ADP	_	60 ground	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 ground	det
59	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 ground	amod
60	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 reposing	obl
61	under	under	ADP	_	64 sky	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 sky	det
63	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 sky	amod
64	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 reposing	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 hillside	punct
66	on	on	ADP	_	69 hillside	case
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 hillside	det
68	bleak	bleak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 hillside	amod
69	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 reposing	obl
70	near	near	ADV	_	69 hillside	advmod
71	to	to	ADP	_	73 spot	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 spot	det
73	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 hillside	nmod
74	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	78 conversed	advmod
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 conversed	nsubj
76	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	78 conversed	aux
77	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	78 conversed	advmod
78	conversed	converse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	73 spot	acl:relcl
79	with	with	ADP	_	82 King	case
80	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	82 King	det
81	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	82 King	compound
82	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 conversed	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	word			night	soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	awake	past	word			morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit up	past	word not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	word not said here				about word	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
5	is a	past		word's astonishment and horror			what nsubj; word nmod:poss; horror conj	tree rules
6	discover	to-infinitive	word not said here	that				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
7	lie	gerund	word not said here		word's magnificent palace		upon word's fine couch; with troops of servants	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location
8	wait	to-infinitive	word not said here				upon word	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
9	repose	past · progressive	word		the open sky		upon the bare ground; on a bleak hillside to the spot	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location
10	converse speech: other	past · perfect	word				with the Fairy King; first property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-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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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 56