Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 33
So he entered the yard where the poultry were kept, and proceeding to the corner where stood the jar of soaked barley, he took out a handful and scattered it amongst the fowls.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: enter, keep, proceed, stand, soak, take out · To what, where: yard, poultry, jar, handful, fowls
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), 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 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yard | det |
| 5 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 kept | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poultry | det |
| 8 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | aux:pass |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 yard | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proceeding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proceeding | cc |
| 13 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 corner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corner | det |
| 16 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proceeding | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | advmod |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 corner | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jar | det |
| 20 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 barley | case |
| 22 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 barley | amod |
| 23 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jar | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 took | compound:prt |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 handful | det |
| 29 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scattered | cc |
| 31 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 took | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 scattered | obj |
| 33 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 35 fowls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fowls | det |
| 35 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 scattered | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Scarcely | the yard | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | the poultry | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | proceed | gerund | Scarcely not said here | to the corner | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the jar of soaked barley | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | soak | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | take out | past | Scarcely | a handful | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 7 | scatter | past | Scarcely not said here | handful | the fowls | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme amongst fowl=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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