Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 12
The King gladly agreed to this condition, and asked the Lama how he should proceed in order to secure the desired result.
Who acts: King, dog · What happens: agree, ask, proceed, secure, desire · To what, where: Lama, order, desired result
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 (King, dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 condition | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 condition | det |
| 7 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lama | det |
| 12 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 proceed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 proceed | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 proceed | aux |
| 16 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proceed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 secure | mark |
| 20 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proceed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 result | det |
| 22 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 result | amod |
| 23 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 secure | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the King | to this condition; gladly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | the Lama | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lama=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | proceed not said to happen | should | dog | order | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | secure | to-infinitive | dog not said here | the desired result | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition result=Theme | ||||
| 5 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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