Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 111
Without a moment’s hesitation the Prince thrust his sword through the heart of the boy, and taking the goblet in his hand, he carried it upstairs to the Princess, being very careful on the way not to allow a single drop to be spilt.
Who acts: thrust, moment · What happens: take, carry, be, not allow, spilt, hesitate · To what, where: goblet, hand, Princess, way, single drop, sword
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 (thrust, moment), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 hesitation | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitation | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 5 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thrust | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thrust | compound |
| 8 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | nsubj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 boy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 carried | cc |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 carried | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goblet | det |
| 21 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carried | nsubj |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sword | parataxis |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carried | obj |
| 29 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 27 carried | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Princess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Princess | det |
| 32 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 carried | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 careful | punct |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 careful | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 careful | advmod |
| 36 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 carried | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 careful | obl |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 allow | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 allow | mark |
| 42 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 careful | advcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 drop | det |
| 44 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 drop | amod |
| 45 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 allow | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 spilt | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 spilt | aux:pass |
| 48 | spilt | spilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 drop | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | thrust not said here | the goblet | thrust's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goblet=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | carry | past | thrust | goblet | the Princess | upstairs property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | gerund | thrust not said here | the way | careful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not allow | to-infinitive | thrust not said here | a single drop | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | spilt | to-infinitive · passive | thrust not said here | a single drop not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hesitate | a moment | nom hesitation «cognition 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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