Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 116
Presently, opening a huge door, she entered a long, low, gloomy chamber, lighted only by a narrow window which looked out over the back part of the castle.
Who acts: Princess, narrow window · What happens: open, enter, light, look out · To what, where: huge door, long low gloomy chamber, back part
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, narrow window), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 opening | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 door | amod |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opening | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 opening | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chamber | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chamber | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chamber | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 low | punct |
| 15 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chamber | amod |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lighted | punct |
| 18 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 chamber | acl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 window | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 22 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 window | amod |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lighted | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 window | acl:relcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 looked | compound:prt |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 part | det |
| 29 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | compound |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 castle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 castle | det |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | Princess not said here | a huge door | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Princess | a long low gloomy chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 3 | light | participle | a long low gloomy chamber not said here | by a narrow window | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look out | past | a narrow window | the back part of the castle | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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