Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 6
The King, who had almost lost faith in Lamas of any kind, received him courteously, and asked him what he could do to help in the matter.
Who acts: lost faith, King, country · What happens: lose, receive, ask, do, help · To what, where: country, matter
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 (lost faith, King, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 received | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 faith | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 lost | advmod |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 faith | amod |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Lamas | case |
| 10 | Lamas | lama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 faith | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Lamas | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 received | obj |
| 17 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 15 received | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 received | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 do | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 help | mark |
| 27 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 do | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 matter | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 matter | det |
| 30 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 help | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | lost faith in Lamas of any kind | almost property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the King lost faith in Lamas of any kind | country | courteously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the King lost faith in Lamas of any kind not said here | country | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | could | country | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | country not said here | the matter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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