Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 113
“Now,” said she, “the Ogre is effectually destroyed, and can never more come to life in this world.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, destroy, come · To what, where: Ogre, world · 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 (Princess), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ogre | det |
| 10 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 12 | effectually | effectually | ADV | _ | 13 destroyed | advmod |
| 13 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 destroyed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | present · passive | the Ogre | effectually property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | can | this world | never | to life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_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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