Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 53
I, you should know, am a Princess in my own country, and I was handed over to the Ogre by my parents about a year ago in circumstances very similar to your own.
Who acts: I, parents · What happens: know, hand over · To what, where: I, circumstances
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 (I, parents), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 I | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 am | punct |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 am | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 am | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 handed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 handed | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 handed | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 handed | aux:pass |
| 18 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 handed | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Ogre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Ogre | det |
| 22 | Ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 handed | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 parents | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 handed | obl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parents | nmod |
| 29 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 handed | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 circumstances | case |
| 31 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 handed | obl |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 similar | advmod |
| 33 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 circumstances | amod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 own | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 own | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 similar | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | should | I | you nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hand over | past · passive | my parents about a year | I | circumstances | to the Ogre; ago property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to ogre=Destination |
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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