Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 117
When the Prince entered this chamber he was horrified to see that down both sides of it were stretched the bodies of many scores of men, women and children, who lay there fully dressed, but to all appearance quite lifeless.
Who acts: Prince, sides, bodies · What happens: enter, horrify, see down, stretch, lie, dress · To what, where: chamber, window, that, men
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 (Prince, sides, bodies), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 horrified | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 horrified | aux:pass |
| 9 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entered | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 horrified | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sides | det |
| 15 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 stretched | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | aux:pass |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sides | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bodies | det |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 scores | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scores | amod |
| 24 | scores | score | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bodies | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 men | case |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 scores | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 women | punct |
| 28 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 men | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 children | cc |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 men | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lay | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lay | nsubj |
| 33 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | parataxis |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 lay | advmod |
| 35 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 36 dressed | advmod |
| 36 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 lay | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lifeless | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 lifeless | cc |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 appearance | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 appearance | det |
| 41 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lifeless | obl |
| 42 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 43 lifeless | advmod |
| 43 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 entered | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Prince | this chamber | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | horrify | past · passive | window | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see down | to-infinitive | that | both sides obj; down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stretch | past · passive | both sides not said here | chamber | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | the bodies of many scores of men and women and children | there | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | dress | participle | the bodies of many scores of men and women and children not said here | fully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | score | men and women and children | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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