Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 22
After travelling for some considerable distance they arrived at the top of a high pass, whence the Ogre, pointing down to a great castle standing in the valley below, said to the young Prince:
Who acts: Lama, Ogre, great castle · What happens: travel, arrive, point down, stand, say · To what, where: considerable distance, top, great castle, valley, young Prince · 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 (Lama, Ogre, great castle), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 travelling | mark |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 said | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 5 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distance | amod |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelling | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pass | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pass | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pass | amod |
| 15 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pointing | punct |
| 17 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 pointing | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ogre | det |
| 19 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pointing | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pointing | punct |
| 21 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 travelling | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 pointing | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 castle | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 castle | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 castle | amod |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointing | obl |
| 27 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 castle | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 valley | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 valley | det |
| 30 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 standing | obl |
| 31 | below | below | ADV | _ | 30 valley | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelling | punct |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Prince | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Prince | det |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Prince | amod |
| 37 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 said | obl |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | for some considerable distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Lama | some considerable distance not said here | the top of a high pass | tree rules | |||
| 3 | point down | gerund | the Ogre | a great castle | down, whence property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to castle=Recipient | |||
| 4 | stand | gerund | a great castle not said here | the valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the young Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=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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