Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 73
After making a good dinner off the food which the parent Gryphons had just provided for their young ones, the young Man related to the family all his various adventures since the time when he had first made the acquaintance of the Fairy King.
Who acts: young Man, youth · What happens: make, provide, relate, adventure, acquaint · To what, where: good dinner, parent Gryphons, various adventures, family, acquaintance, Fairy King
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 (young Man, youth), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 making | mark |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 related | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dinner | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dinner | amod |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 food | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 provided | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Gryphons | det |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Gryphons | compound |
| 12 | Gryphons | gryphon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 provided | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 provided | advmod |
| 15 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 food | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 provided | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Man | amod |
| 23 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 related | nsubj |
| 24 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 family | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 family | det |
| 27 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 related | obl |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 adventures | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 30 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 adventures | amod |
| 31 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 related | obj |
| 32 | since | since | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 adventures | nmod |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 made | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 made | aux |
| 38 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 39 made | advmod |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 time | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 acquaintance | det |
| 41 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 King | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 King | det |
| 44 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 King | compound |
| 45 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 acquaintance | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the young Man not said here | a good dinner | off the food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product | |||
| 2 | provide | past · perfect · passive | the parent Gryphons | for Gryphons's young ones; the food obj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | relate | past | the young Man | youth's various adventures | the family | since the time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to family=Recipient | ||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | youth | the acquaintance of the Fairy King | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Product | |||
| 5 | adventure | youth | since the time | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent since=obl | |||||
| 6 | acquaint | the Fairy King | nom acquaintance «cognition 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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