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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 65

Scarcely had the Dragon breathed its last when the air was darkened by the wings of some great creature passing overhead, and, looking up, he observed, flying just above him, the forms of the two parent Gryphons now returning to their nest.

Who acts: Scarcely, Dragon, wings, great creature · What happens: have, breathe, darken, pass, look up, observe · To what, where: last, air, two parent Gryphons

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 (Scarcely, Dragon, wings, great creature), 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

nsubjdetnsubjccompnmod:possobjmarkdetnsubj:passaux:passadvclcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodacladvmodpunctccpunctadvclcompound:prtpunctnsubjconjpunctxcompadvmodcaseoblpunctdetconjcasedetnummodcompoundnmodadvmodconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootScarcelyPROPNhadVERBtheDETDragonPROPNbreathedVERBitsPRONlastADJwhenSCONJtheDETairNOUNwasAUXdarkenedVERBbyADPtheDETwingsNOUNofADPsomeDETgreatADJcreatureNOUNpassingVERBoverheadADV,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTlookingVERBupADP,PUNCThePRONobservedVERB,PUNCTflyingVERBjustADVaboveADPhimPRON,PUNCTtheDETformsNOUNofADPtheDETtwoNUMparentNOUNGryphonsNOUNnowADVreturningVERBtoADPtheirPRONnestNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ScarcelyScarcelyPROPNNumber=Sing2 hadnsubj
2hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Dragondet
4DragonDragonPROPNNumber=Sing5 breathednsubj
5breathedbreatheVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hadccomp
6itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 lastnmod:poss
7lastlastADJDegree=Pos5 breathedobj
8whenwhenSCONJ_12 darkenedmark
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 airdet
10airairNOUNNumber=Sing12 darkenednsubj:pass
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 darkenedaux:pass
12darkeneddarkenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 breathedadvcl
13bybyADP_15 wingscase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 wingsdet
15wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur12 darkenedobl
16ofofADP_19 creaturecase
17somesomeDETPronType=Ind19 creaturedet
18greatgreatADJDegree=Pos19 creatureamod
19creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing15 wingsnmod
20passingpassVERBVerbForm=Ger19 creatureacl
21overheadoverheadADV_20 passingadvmod
22,,PUNCT_29 observedpunct
23andandCCONJ_29 observedcc
24,,PUNCT_25 lookingpunct
25lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 observedadvcl
26upupADP_25 lookingcompound:prt
27,,PUNCT_25 lookingpunct
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 observednsubj
29observedobserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hadconj
30,,PUNCT_31 flyingpunct
31flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger29 observedxcomp
32justjustADV_34 himadvmod
33aboveaboveADP_34 himcase
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 flyingobl
35,,PUNCT_37 formspunct
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 formsdet
37formsformNOUNNumber=Plur34 himconj
38ofofADP_42 Gryphonscase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 Gryphonsdet
40twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card42 Gryphonsnummod
41parentparentNOUNNumber=Sing42 Gryphonscompound
42GryphonsgryphonNOUNNumber=Plur37 formsnmod
43nownowADVPronType=Dem31 flyingadvmod
44returningreturnVERBVerbForm=Ger31 flyingconj
45totoADP_47 nestcase
46theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs47 nestnmod:poss
47nestnestNOUNNumber=Sing44 returningobl
48..PUNCT_2 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastScarcelytree rules
2breathepastthe DragonDragon's lastvn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme
3darkenpast · passivethe wings of some great creaturethe airvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4passgerundsome great creature not said hereoverhead propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5look upgerundScarcely not said herevn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6observepastScarcelyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7flygerundScarcely not said herenowabove Scarcelyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above he=Location
8returngerundScarcely not said hereto Gryphons's nest resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result
9formthe two parent Gryphonsnom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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