Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 42
At last in despair he took away the flower which was placed behind her ear, and as he did so she woke and sat up upon her couch, rubbing her eyes.
Who acts: last, Scarcely, goat · What happens: take away, place, do, wake, sit up, rub · To what, where: flower, ear, couch, eyes
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 (last, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flower | det |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flower | acl:relcl |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 ear | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ear | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 woke | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 woke | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 woke | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 woke | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 woke | nsubj |
| 23 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 woke | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 sat | compound:prt |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 couch | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 couch | nmod:poss |
| 29 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rubbing | punct |
| 31 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sat | advcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rubbing | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | last in despair | the flower | Scarcely nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the flower | goat's ear | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind ear=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Scarcely | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wake | past | goat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sit up | past | goat not said here | goat's couch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location | ||||
| 6 | rub | gerund | goat not said here | goat's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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