Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 65
This he is bound to do, and while he is going round the stove you may perhaps find an opportunity for stabbing him.
Who acts: This, back, you, opportunity · What happens: be, do, go, find, stab · To what, where: stove, opportunity, back
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 (This, back, you, opportunity), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | cop |
| 4 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bound | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 find | advcl |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 stove | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stove | det |
| 15 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bound | parataxis |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 opportunity | det |
| 21 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 stabbing | mark |
| 23 | stabbing | stab | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 opportunity | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stabbing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | back nsubj; bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | back | the stove | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round stove=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find | may | you | a opportunity | perhaps property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic | |||
| 5 | stab | gerund | a opportunity not said here | back | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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