Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 24
When you arrive there you will find a goat tied up near the door of the courtyard, and a bundle of straw lying near by.
Who acts: you, straw · What happens: arrive, find, tie up, lie · To what, where: goat, door
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 (you, straw), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrive | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 arrive | nsubj |
| 3 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arrive | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 goat | det |
| 9 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 goat | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 tied | compound:prt |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 courtyard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 courtyard | det |
| 17 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bundle | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bundle | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bundle | det |
| 21 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 straw | case |
| 23 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bundle | nmod |
| 24 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 straw | acl |
| 25 | near | near | ADV | _ | 24 lying | advmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 near | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | you | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | a goat | a bundle of straw conj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Topic | |||
| 3 | tie up | participle | a goat not said here | the door of the courtyard | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | straw not said here | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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