Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 21
These three accordingly were handed over to the Lama, who ordered the Prince to follow him, and started off at once to his own country.
Who acts: Lama · What happens: hand over, order, follow, start off · To what, where: three, Prince, dog
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 (Lama), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | aux:pass |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 handed | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Lama | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lama | det |
| 9 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Lama | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 started | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 started | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 started | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 country | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 once | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand over | past · passive | the Lama | this three | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the Lama | the Prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lama not said here | dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start off | past | the Lama not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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