Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 103
In the centre of this chamber you will see a beautiful boy seated with a goblet of crystal liquid in his hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, seat · To what, where: beautiful boy, centre
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 (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boy | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 goblet | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 goblet | det |
| 16 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seated | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 liquid | case |
| 18 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 liquid | amod |
| 19 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 goblet | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 liquid | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | you | a beautiful boy | the centre of this chamber | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | seat | participle | a beautiful boy not said here | with a goblet of crystal liquid in boy's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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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