Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 68
“Have you ever, Mother Gryphon,” asked the male bird, “seen any creature of that description before?”
Who acts: you, male bird · What happens: have, ask, see · To what, where: Mother, creature · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, male bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Have | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 Have | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 7 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 creature | det |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 description | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 description | det |
| 21 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creature | nmod |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | Mother | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the male bird | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | participle | any creature of that description | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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