Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 34
As the grain touched the ground it was transformed instantly into three wild cats, who leapt fiercely upon the cocks and hens, and in a few moments, having destroyed them all, fled away into the hills.
Who acts: three wild cats · What happens: touch, transform, leapt, destroy, flee away · To what, where: ground, hens, hills
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 (three wild cats), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 grain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grain | det |
| 3 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obl |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 transformed | aux:pass |
| 9 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 touched | parataxis |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 9 transformed | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cats | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cats | nummod |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cats | amod |
| 14 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 transformed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leapt | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 leapt | nsubj |
| 17 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cats | acl:relcl |
| 18 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 17 leapt | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 cocks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cocks | det |
| 21 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leapt | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hens | cc |
| 23 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cocks | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 destroyed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 destroyed | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 moments | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 moments | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 moments | amod |
| 29 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 destroyed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 moments | punct |
| 31 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 destroyed | aux |
| 32 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 touched | parataxis |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 destroyed | obj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fled | punct |
| 36 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 fled | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 hills | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hills | det |
| 40 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the ground | as the grain | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | transform | past · passive | ground | into three wild cats result; instantly property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into cat=Result | ||||
| 3 | leapt | past | three wild cats | upon the cocks and hens; fiercely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy | gerund · perfect | hens = hen | moment | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | flee away | past | the hills | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hill=Initial_Location |
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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