Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 39
Entering this room he saw in one corner a beautiful lady lying asleep on a couch with a flower behind her ear.
Who acts: Scarcely, beautiful lady · What happens: enter, see, lie · To what, where: room, one corner, couch
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, beautiful lady), 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 | Entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entering | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 room | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 corner | nummod |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corner | conj |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 lady | acl |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lying | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 couch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 couch | det |
| 16 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 flower | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 flower | det |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 ear | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ear | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Entering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | this room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Scarcely | this room not said here | one corner and a beautiful lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a beautiful lady not said here | a couch | with a flower; behind goat's ear; asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=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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