Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 16
So saying, he handed the pills to the King and forthwith took his departure.
Who acts: three · What happens: say, hand, take, depart · To what, where: pills, King, departure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (three), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 handed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pills | det |
| 7 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 12 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 departure | nmod:poss |
| 15 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | three not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hand | past | three | the pills | the King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pill=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | three not said here | three's departure | forthwith property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme | |||
| 4 | depart | three | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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