Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 10
They will all be of a miraculous nature, and will grow to their full powers in the course of three years.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: course
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nature | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 nature | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 nature | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nature | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nature | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nature | det |
| 7 | miraculous | miraculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nature | amod |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grow | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grow | aux |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nature | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 powers | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 powers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 powers | amod |
| 16 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grow | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 course | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 course | det |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 course | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | children = child | of a miraculous nature; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | future | children = child not said here | the course of three years | to children's full powers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location |
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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