Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 14
“Here, oh King, are nine pills; three of these must be administered to the Queen, three to the horse and three to the dog.
What happens: be, administer · To what, where: nine pills, three, Queen
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 King | discourse |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pills | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pills | cop |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pills | nummod |
| 9 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Here | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 administered | punct |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 administered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 these | case |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 three | nmod |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 administered | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 administered | aux:pass |
| 16 | administered | administer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Here | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Queen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 administered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 three | punct |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Queen | appos |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 horse | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 three | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 three | cc |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 three | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 dog | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dog | det |
| 29 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 three | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | nine pills | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | administer in a quote | must · passive | three of these | the Queen | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to queen=Recipient |
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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