Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 105
You must at once slay the boy, and taking the goblet very carefully in your hand, carry it upstairs to me.
Who acts: You · What happens: slay, take, carry · To what, where: boy, goblet, hand, me
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 slay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slay | aux |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 slay | obl |
| 5 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slay | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goblet | det |
| 12 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 carefully | advmod |
| 14 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 taking | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carry | punct |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slay | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 19 carry | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | must | You | the boy | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | You not said here | the goblet | your hand | carefully property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goblet=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | You not said here | goblet | me | upstairs property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
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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