Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 60

By the side of this lake there arose a jagged cliff, and about half-way up the cliff on a broad ledge he noticed an immense nest, in which appeared some young birds of unusual size.

Who acts: word · What happens: arise, notice, appear · To what, where: jagged cliff, immense nest, young birds

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	By	by	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arose	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 arose	advmod
8	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cliff	det
10	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cliff	amod
11	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arose	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 way	cc
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 half	advmod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 way	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 half	punct
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arose	obl
18	up	up	ADP	_	20 cliff	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cliff	det
20	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 ledge	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ledge	det
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ledge	amod
24	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 noticed	nsubj
26	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ledge	acl:relcl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 nest	det
28	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nest	amod
29	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noticed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 appeared	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 appeared	nsubj
33	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arose	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 birds	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 birds	amod
36	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 appeared	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 size	case
38	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 size	amod
39	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 birds	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past		a jagged cliff	there	by the side of this lake; half way up the cliff on a broad ledge obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cliff=Theme
2	notice	past	word	a immense nest			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus
3	appear	past		some young birds of unusual size		which nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 60

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 60