Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 37
The rooms were all well furnished and in good order, but he could find no trace and hear no sound of any living creature.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: furnish, find, hear · To what, where: rooms, trace, sound
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rooms | det |
| 2 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 furnished | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 furnished | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 furnished | advmod |
| 6 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 order | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 order | amod |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 furnished | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 furnished | parataxis |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 trace | det |
| 17 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hear | cc |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 sound | det |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hear | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 creature | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 creature | det |
| 24 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 creature | amod |
| 25 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sound | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past · passive | the rooms | good order conj; all, well property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find | could | Scarcely | no trace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | present | Scarcely not said here | no sound of any living creature | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
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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