Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 6
As soon as it was seated upon the water it swam round the lake three times to the right and then three times to the left, and having done so it flew away again and disappeared into the sky.
Who acts: Drake · What happens: seat, swim, do, fly away, disappear · To what, where: Drake, right, 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 (Drake), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 swam | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 seated | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seated | aux:pass |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 swam | advcl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swam | nsubj |
| 11 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swam | obl |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swam | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 right | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 right | det |
| 19 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swam | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 times | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 times | advmod |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 right | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 left | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 left | det |
| 26 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 times | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 done | cc |
| 29 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 swam | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | advcl |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 disappeared | cc |
| 37 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 flew | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 sky | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sky | det |
| 40 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 disappeared | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Drake | upon the water | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | Drake | the right and three times to the left | time | round the lake; soon property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to right=Destination | ||
| 3 | do | gerund · perfect | Drake not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fly away | past | Drake | again | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | disappear | past | Drake not said here | the sky | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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