Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 50
These tasks grow daily more difficult and more odious, until at last one day the servant disobeys his orders, and forthwith his body is at the mercy of the Ogre, who devours the heart and places the lifeless body in a large chamber at the back of this house.
Who acts: tasks, servant, body, mercy · What happens: grow, disobey, forthwith, be, devour, order · To what, where: orders, mercy, heart, large chamber
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 (tasks, servant, body, mercy), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 tasks | det |
| 2 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grow | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 odious | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 odious | advmod |
| 9 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 difficult | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disobeys | punct |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 disobeys | mark |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disobeys | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servant | det |
| 17 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disobeys | nsubj |
| 18 | disobeys | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 orders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 disobeys | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forthwith | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 forthwith | cc |
| 23 | forthwith | forthwith | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 disobeys | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mercy | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mercy | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 mercy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mercy | det |
| 29 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forthwith | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Ogre | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Ogre | det |
| 32 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mercy | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 devours | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 devours | nsubj |
| 35 | devours | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 mercy | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heart | det |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 devours | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 places | cc |
| 39 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 heart | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 body | det |
| 41 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 body | amod |
| 42 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 devours | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 chamber | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 chamber | det |
| 45 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 chamber | amod |
| 46 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 devours | obl |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 back | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 back | det |
| 49 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 chamber | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 house | case |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 house | det |
| 52 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 back | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | this tasks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | disobey | present | the servant | servant's orders | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | forthwith | past | the servant not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | servant's body | the mercy | of the Ogre | tree rules | |||
| 5 | devour | present | the mercy | the heart and places | a large chamber at the back of this house | the lifeless body obj | tree rules | ||
| 6 | order | servant | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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