Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 5
So he disguised himself as a holy Lama, and coming up to the palace one day on foot, he asked for an interview with the King.
Who acts: country · What happens: disguise, come up, ask · To what, where: country, foot
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 (country), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 disguised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disguised | nsubj |
| 3 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 disguised | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Lama | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Lama | det |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lama | amod |
| 8 | Lama | lama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disguised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 coming | cc |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 disguised | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 coming | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disguised | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 interview | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 interview | det |
| 25 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 interview | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | country | country | as a holy Lama | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 2 | come up | gerund | country not said here | foot | day | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | country | for a interview with the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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