Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 87
He then related to me his story of how, after nine years of happiness, he was deprived by the King of the Fairies of his wife, his house, his wealth, and everything which he had possessed.
Who acts: King · What happens: deprive, possess · To what, where: monster
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 related | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 related | advmod |
| 3 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 related | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 how | case |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 story | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 how | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 happiness | case |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 years | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deprived | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 deprived | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 deprived | aux:pass |
| 19 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 deprived | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Fairies | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fairies | det |
| 25 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 King | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wife | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Fairies | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 house | punct |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wealth | punct |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 everything | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 everything | cc |
| 37 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 King | conj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 possessed | aux |
| 41 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 everything | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | past · passive | the King of the Fairies of monster's wife and monster's house and monster's wealth everything | monster | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | possess | past · perfect · passive | which nsubj:pass; monster nsubj:pass | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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