Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 109
As he pronounced these words for the third time a grating sound was heard, and with a hollow clang the wall gave way for him.
Who acts: drop, third time, wall · What happens: pronounce, hear, give · To what, where: words, grating sound, way
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 (drop, third time, wall), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 pronounced | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pronounced | nsubj |
| 3 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pronounced | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 11 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | compound |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clang | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 clang | det |
| 19 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clang | amod |
| 20 | clang | clang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pronounced | conj |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | drop | this words | for the third time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the third time not said here | a grating sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the wall | way | with a hollow clang; for drop | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme for he=Asset |
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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