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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 121

In a few moments the transformation was complete, and the Ogre’s victims, after thanking the Prince and Princess heartily for their good offices, returned to their own homes.

Who acts: transformation · What happens: be, thank, return · To what, where: Prince

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 (transformation), 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

casedetamodobldetnsubjcoppunctccdetnmod:posscaseoblpunctmarkconjdetobjccconjadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctparataxiscasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootInADPaDETfewADJmomentsNOUNtheDETtransformationNOUNwasAUXcompleteADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETOgrePROPN’sPARTvictimsNOUN,PUNCTafterSCONJthankingVERBtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJPrincessPROPNheartilyADVforADPtheirPRONgoodADJofficesNOUN,PUNCTreturnedVERBtoADPtheirPRONownADJhomesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 momentscase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 momentsdet
3fewfewADJDegree=Pos4 momentsamod
4momentsmomentNOUNNumber=Plur8 completeobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 transformationdet
6transformationtransformationNOUNNumber=Sing8 completensubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 completecop
8completecompleteADJDegree=Posrootroot
9,,PUNCT_14 victimspunct
10andandCCONJ_14 victimscc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Ogredet
12OgreOgrePROPNNumber=Sing14 victimsnmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 Ogrecase
14victimsvictimNOUNNumber=Plur8 completeobl
15,,PUNCT_17 thankingpunct
16afterafterSCONJ_17 thankingmark
17thankingthankVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 completeconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Princedet
19PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing17 thankingobj
20andandCCONJ_21 Princesscc
21PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing19 Princeconj
22heartilyheartilyADV_17 thankingadvmod
23forforADP_26 officescase
24theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 officesnmod:poss
25goodgoodADJDegree=Pos26 officesamod
26officesofficeNOUNNumber=Plur17 thankingobl
27,,PUNCT_28 returnedpunct
28returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 completeparataxis
29totoADP_32 homescase
30theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 homesnmod:poss
31ownownADJDegree=Pos32 homesamod
32homeshomeNOUNNumber=Plur28 returnedobl
33..PUNCT_8 completepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe transformationmomentthe Ogre's victims obl; complete propertytree rules
2thank speech: thankgerundthe transformation not said herethe Prince and Princessfor Princes's good offices; heartily propertyvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent prince=Theme for office=Attribute
3returnpastto Princes's own homes resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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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