Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 30
So he dismounted from his horse, and, picking up the bundle, he carried it near the goat and placed it on the ground.
Who acts: Ogre · What happens: dismount, pick up, carry, place · To what, where: bundle, ground
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 (Ogre), 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 | _ | 3 dismounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dismounted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picking | punct |
| 10 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 carried | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picking | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bundle | det |
| 13 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picking | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 goat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goat | det |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | Ogre | from Ogre's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from horse=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | Ogre not said here | the bundle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Ogre | bundle | near the goat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | place | past | Ogre not said here | bundle | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination |
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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