Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 115
So saying she ordered the Prince, still carrying the goblet, to follow her, and she proceeded by many winding passages and staircases to a remote part of the great castle.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: say, order, carry, follow, proceed · To what, where: Prince, goblet, Princess · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 carrying | advmod |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 follow | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 carrying | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 follow | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 proceeded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 proceeded | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 proceeded | nsubj |
| 19 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 passages | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 passages | amod |
| 22 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passages | compound |
| 23 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 proceeded | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 staircases | cc |
| 25 | staircases | staircase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passages | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 part | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 28 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 proceeded | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 castle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 castle | amod |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | order | past | Princess | the Prince | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Princess not said here | the goblet | still | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | |||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | proceed | past | Princess | by many winding passages and staircases; to a remote part of the great castle | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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