Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 89

While this conversation was in progress the young man’s Fairy wife had been hiding in a corner, too nervous to show herself before her husband and all the assembly of the gods.

Who acts: conversation, Fairy wife · What happens: be, hide, show · To what, where: progress, corner, wife

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 (conversation, Fairy wife), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 progress	mark
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 conversation	det
3	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 progress	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 progress	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 progress	case
6	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	compound
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hiding	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hiding	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hiding	aux
15	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 progress	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 corner	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hiding	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nervous	punct
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 nervous	advmod
21	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 progress	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 nervous	advcl
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 show	iobj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 husband	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 husband	nmod:poss
27	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 assembly	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 assembly	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 assembly	det
31	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 husband	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 gods	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gods	det
34	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 assembly	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 progress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is	past	this conversation			progress		tree rules
2	hide	past · perfect · progressive	the young man's Fairy wife	progress not said here		a corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent progress=Patient in corner=Location
3	be		this conversation not said here					tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	this conversation not said here		wife		before wife's husband and all assembly of the gods	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 89