Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 120

Accordingly the Prince passed down the rows of lifeless bodies, dropping as he went one drop of the magic liquid on each body; and as the liquor touched the body the life returned, and each person, as if awakened from a long sleep, moved and yawned, and finally sat up and began to talk and walk.

Who acts: Prince, drop, life · What happens: pass down, drop, go, touch, return, awaken · To what, where: rows, one drop, body, long sleep

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, drop, life), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 passed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rows	det
7	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bodies	case
9	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bodies	amod
10	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rows	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropping	punct
12	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passed	advcl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropping	ccomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 drop	nummod
17	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 liquid	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 liquid	det
20	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 liquid	amod
21	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drop	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 liquid	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 touched	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 touched	cc
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 liquor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 liquor	det
29	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touched	obl
30	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 body	det
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touched	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 life	det
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 returned	nsubj
35	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 touched	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 person	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 person	cc
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 person	det
39	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touched	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 awakened	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 awakened	mark
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 awakened	mark
43	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 touched	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	47 sleep	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 sleep	det
46	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sleep	amod
47	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 awakened	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 moved	punct
49	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 touched	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 yawned	cc
51	yawned	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 moved	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sat	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 sat	cc
54	finally	finally	ADV	_	55 sat	advmod
55	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
56	up	up	ADP	_	55 sat	compound:prt
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 began	cc
58	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 sat	conj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 talk	mark
60	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 began	xcomp
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 walk	cc
62	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 talk	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass down	past	the Prince	the rows of lifeless bodies		accordingly property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme row=Trajectory
2	drop	gerund	the Prince not said here				tree rules
3	go	past	drop	one drop of the magic liquid on each body			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	touch	past		the body		as the liquor; each person conj	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-Theme
5	return	past	the life				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	awaken a condition, not said to happen	participle			a long sleep		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	move	past					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	yawn	past					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sit up	past				finally property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	talk	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	walk	infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 120

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 120