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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 67

The parent Gryphons were very pleased when they heard this story, and, looking towards the young Man with some curiosity, they began to remark upon his appearance.

Who acts: parent Gryphons, Gryphons · What happens: be, hear, look, begin, remark · To what, where: story

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 (parent Gryphons, Gryphons), 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

detcompoundnsubjcopadvmodadvmodnsubjadvcldetobjpunctccpunctadvclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETparentNOUNGryphonsNOUNwereAUXveryADVpleasedADJwhenADVtheyPRONheardVERBthisDETstoryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTlookingVERBtowardsADPtheDETyoungADJManNOUNwithADPsomeDETcuriosityNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONbeganVERBtoPARTremarkVERBuponADPhisPRONappearanceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Gryphonsdet
2parentparentNOUNNumber=Sing3 Gryphonscompound
3GryphonsgryphonNOUNNumber=Plur6 pleasednsubj
4werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 pleasedcop
5veryveryADV_6 pleasedadvmod
6pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Posrootroot
7whenwhenADVPronType=Int9 heardadvmod
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 heardnsubj
9heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 pleasedadvcl
10thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem11 storydet
11storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing9 heardobj
12,,PUNCT_15 lookingpunct
13andandCCONJ_15 lookingcc
14,,PUNCT_15 lookingpunct
15lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 heardadvcl
16towardstowardsADP_19 Mancase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Mandet
18youngyoungADJDegree=Pos19 Manamod
19ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 lookingobl
20withwithADP_22 curiositycase
21somesomeDETPronType=Ind22 curiositydet
22curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing19 Mannmod
23,,PUNCT_25 beganpunct
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 begannsubj
25beganbeginVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 pleasedconj
26totoPART_27 remarkmark
27remarkremarkVERBVerbForm=Inf25 beganxcomp
28uponuponADP_30 appearancecase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 appearancenmod:poss
30appearanceappearanceNOUNNumber=Sing27 remarkobl
31..PUNCT_6 pleasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe parent Gryphonspleased propertytree rules
2hearpastGryphons = gryphonthis storyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3lookgerundGryphons = gryphon not said heretowards the young Man with some curiosityvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards man=Theme
4beginpastGryphons = gryphonvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5remark speech: assertto-infinitiveGryphons = gryphon not said hereupon Scarcely's appearancevn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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