Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 43
As soon as she perceived the young Prince she was much astonished, and asked him what he was doing in the Ogre’s castle.
Who acts: goat, Scarcely · What happens: perceive, be, ask, do · To what, where: young Prince, Scarcely, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (goat, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 perceived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 perceived | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Prince | amod |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 perceived | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceived | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 doing | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 doing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 doing | aux |
| 20 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ogre | det |
| 23 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ogre | case |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 doing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | goat | the young Prince | soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | goat | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | goat not said here | Scarcely | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | Scarcely | the Ogre's castle | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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