Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 122
The Prince himself bade farewell to the lady, and leaving her in possession of the Ogre’s castle and all its belongings, he himself mounted upon his horse, and with his dog following at his heels, set out in search of further adventures.
Who acts: bade, dog · What happens: leave, mount, follow, set out, possess, search · To what, where: bade, possession, heels, dog, search, castle
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 (bade, 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | nmod:poss |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Prince | nmod |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mounted | nsubj |
| 5 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 8 lady | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 mounted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mounted | cc |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 mounted | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leaving | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 possession | case |
| 14 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Ogre | det |
| 17 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 castle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Ogre | case |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 possession | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 belongings | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 belongings | det:predet |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 belongings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 castle | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 mounted | nsubj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 25 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 horse | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 horse | nmod:poss |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mounted | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dog | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dog | cc |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 dog | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dog | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mounted | parataxis |
| 36 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 dog | acl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 heels | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 heels | nmod:poss |
| 39 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 following | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 set | punct |
| 41 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dog | acl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 set | compound:prt |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 search | case |
| 44 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 set | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 adventures | case |
| 46 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 adventures | amod |
| 47 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 search | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the Prince Ogre's bade to the lady not said here | bade | possession of the Ogre's castle and castle's belongings | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in possession=Location | |||
| 2 | mount | past | the Prince Ogre's bade to the lady | upon Ogre's horse; Ogre nsubj; Ogre's dog parataxis | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | Ogre's dog not said here | Ogre's heels | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location | ||||
| 4 | set out | participle | Ogre's dog not said here | search of further adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | possess | the Ogre's castle and castle's belongings | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | search | further adventures | nom search «act 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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