Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 66
As soon as they had arrived the young Gryphons proceeded to relate to them at full length the terrible danger they had just escaped, and the gallant conduct of the young Man in slaying their would-be destroyer.
Who acts: man, young Gryphons, terrible danger, young Man · What happens: arrive, proceed, relate, escape, slay, be · To what, where: Gryphons, full length, man, destroyer, young Man
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 (man, young Gryphons, terrible danger, young Man), 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 | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | aux |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gryphons | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Gryphons | amod |
| 9 | Gryphons | gryphon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 proceeded | nsubj |
| 10 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 relate | mark |
| 12 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 proceeded | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 relate | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 length | amod |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relate | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 danger | det |
| 19 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 danger | amod |
| 20 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 length | appos |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 escaped | aux |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 escaped | advmod |
| 24 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 danger | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 conduct | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 conduct | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 conduct | det |
| 28 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 conduct | amod |
| 29 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Man | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Man | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Man | amod |
| 33 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 conduct | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 slaying | mark |
| 35 | slaying | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 Man | acl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 destroyer | nmod:poss |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 destroyer | aux |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 destroyer | punct |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 destroyer | cop |
| 40 | destroyer | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 slaying | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | man | the gallant conduct of the young Man conj; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past | the young Gryphons | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | relate | to-infinitive | the young Gryphons not said here | Gryphons = gryphon | full length | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | escape | past · perfect · passive | the terrible danger not said here | man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | slay | gerund | the young Man not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | would | Gryphons's destroyer | Gryphons = gryphon nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | conduct | the young Man | nom conduct «act 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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