Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 54
But when he had brought me to his castle, instead of destroying me as he does his other victims, he fell in love with me, and I have remained here as his wife ever since.
Who acts: doubt, I · What happens: bring, destroy, do, fall, remain · To what, where: me, castle, other victims, love
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 (doubt, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 castle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroying | punct |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 destroying | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 destroying | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 does | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroying | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 victims | nmod:poss |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 victims | amod |
| 20 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 does | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 does | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 remained | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 remained | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 remained | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 remained | aux |
| 32 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fell | conj |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 remained | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 wife | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wife | nmod:poss |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 remained | obl |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 since | advmod |
| 38 | since | since | ADV | _ | 32 remained | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect | doubt | me | doubt's castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | destroy | gerund | doubt not said here | me | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | present | doubt | doubt's other victims | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | doubt | love | with me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 5 | remain | present · perfect | I | here | ever | as doubt's wife; since property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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