Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 49
Thus it is his practice upon obtaining a fresh servant to set him strange tasks which terrify and repel him.
Who acts: house, practice, strange tasks · What happens: be, obtain, set, terrify, repel · To what, where: practice, fresh servant, person
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 (house, practice, strange tasks), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 practice | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 practice | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 practice | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 practice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 obtaining | mark |
| 7 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 practice | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 servant | det |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 servant | amod |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtaining | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 servant | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tasks | amod |
| 15 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 terrify | nsubj |
| 17 | terrify | terrify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tasks | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 repel | cc |
| 19 | repel | repel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 terrify | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 repel | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | house | person's practice | person nmod:poss; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | person's practice not said here | a fresh servant | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | person's practice not said here | person | strange tasks obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme task=Destination | |||
| 4 | terrify | present | strange tasks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | repel | present | strange tasks not said here | person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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