Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 32
The young Prince was very much astonished at seeing this, but being of a courageous spirit he did not allow the incident to frighten him, and proceeded to finish the remainder of his task.
Who acts: Scarcely, incident · What happens: astonish, see, be, not allow, frighten, proceed · To what, where: young Prince, this, incident, Scarcely, remainder
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 (Scarcely, incident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 astonished | advmod |
| 7 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 astonished | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirit | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 spirit | cc |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spirit | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 spirit | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spirit | det |
| 16 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spirit | amod |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 astonished | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 allow | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 allow | advmod |
| 21 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 incident | det |
| 23 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 frighten | mark |
| 25 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allow | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 frighten | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeded | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 proceeded | cc |
| 29 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 finish | mark |
| 31 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 proceeded | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 remainder | det |
| 33 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 finish | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 task | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 task | nmod:poss |
| 36 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remainder | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past · passive | the young Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of a courageous spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not allow | past · do-support | Scarcely | the incident | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer incident=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | frighten not said to happen | to-infinitive | the incident not said here | Scarcely | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | proceed | past | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | finish | to-infinitive | the remainder of Scarcely's task | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality remainder=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | task | Scarcely | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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