Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 58
Now the Ogre’s mascot is very carefully concealed, and its existence and whereabouts are known to no person except myself.
Who acts: mascot · What happens: conceal, know, exist · To what, where: mascot, existence
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 (mascot), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 concealed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ogre | det |
| 3 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mascot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ogre | case |
| 5 | mascot | mascot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 concealed | aux |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 concealed | advmod |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 concealed | advmod |
| 9 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 known | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 known | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 existence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 whereabouts | cc |
| 15 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 existence | conj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 concealed | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 21 | except | except | ADP | _ | 22 myself | case |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 person | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | present · passive | the Ogre's mascot | now | carefully property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | present · passive | mascot's existence and whereabouts | to no person except myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | exist | mascot | nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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