Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 40
The Prince was pleased at finding a human being in this desolate and mysterious castle, and, approaching the lady, he endeavoured to arouse her from her slumber.
Who acts: Prince, this, Scarcely, goat · What happens: be, find, desolate, approach, endeavour, arouse · To what, where: human desolate mysterious castle, lady, goat, slumber
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 (Prince, this, Scarcely, goat), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 finding | mark |
| 6 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pleased | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 castle | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 castle | nsubj |
| 12 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 castle | compound |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 castle | cc |
| 14 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 endeavoured | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 endeavoured | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 approaching | punct |
| 19 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 endeavoured | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 approaching | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 approaching | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 24 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 arouse | mark |
| 26 | arouse | arouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 arouse | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 slumber | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 30 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arouse | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | gerund | this | a human desolate mysterious castle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | approach | gerund | Scarcely not said here | the lady | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 6 | endeavour | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | arouse | to-infinitive | Scarcely not said here | goat | goat's slumber | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | slumber | goat | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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