Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 18
All the young ones grew apace, and at the end of the three years they had all attained to their full growth and powers, and punctually at the conclusion of the third year the Ogre, still disguised as a Lama, returned to the palace to demand his due.
Who acts: young ones, King · What happens: grow, attain, disguise, return, demand, conclude · To what, where: end, conclusion, due, third year
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 (young ones, King), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ones | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | apace | apace | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attained | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 attained | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attained | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 years | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 end | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 attained | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 attained | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 attained | advmod |
| 19 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 grew | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 growth | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 growth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 growth | amod |
| 23 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attained | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 powers | cc |
| 25 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 growth | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conclusion | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 conclusion | cc |
| 28 | punctually | punctually | ADV | _ | 31 conclusion | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 conclusion | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 conclusion | det |
| 31 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 year | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 year | det |
| 34 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 year | amod |
| 35 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conclusion | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Ogre | det |
| 37 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 year | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 disguised | punct |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 disguised | advmod |
| 40 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 conclusion | acl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 Lama | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 Lama | det |
| 43 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 disguised | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 returned | punct |
| 45 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 palace | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 palace | det |
| 48 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 returned | obl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 demand | mark |
| 50 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 returned | advcl |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 due | nmod:poss |
| 52 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 50 demand | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | all young ones | the conclusion of the third year conj; apace property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attain | past · perfect | King | at the end of the three years | to King's full growth and powers; all property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at end=Asset | |||
| 3 | disguise | participle | the conclusion of the third year not said here | still | as a Lama | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | past | all young ones not said here | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | all young ones not said here | dog's due | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme due=Precondition | ||||
| 6 | grow | King | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | conclude | the third year | nom conclusion «cognition 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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