Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 107
On receiving these instructions the Prince went down into the vaults at the basement of the castle, and having traversed nine great subterranean chambers, he found his progress stopped by a blank wall.
Who acts: Prince, drop, progress · What happens: receive, go down, traverse, find, stop, progress · To what, where: instructions, vaults, nine great subterranean chambers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, drop, progress), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 receiving | mark |
| 2 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 instructions | det |
| 4 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 receiving | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 vaults | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vaults | det |
| 11 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 basement | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basement | det |
| 14 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vaults | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 basement | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 traversed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 traversed | cc |
| 20 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 traversed | aux |
| 21 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 went | conj |
| 22 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 chambers | nummod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chambers | amod |
| 24 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chambers | amod |
| 25 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 traversed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 progress | nmod:poss |
| 30 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stopped | nsubj |
| 31 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | ccomp |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 wall | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wall | det |
| 34 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wall | amod |
| 35 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stopped | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | the Prince not said here | this instructions | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | the Prince | the vaults at the basement of the castle | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | traverse | gerund · perfect | the Prince not said here | nine great subterranean chambers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | drop | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | past | drop's progress | by a blank wall | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | progress | drop | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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