Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 66
If, however, you cannot succeed in doing so, and you both pass through this ordeal successfully, he will set you no further task to-night, and I will ascertain from him during the evening what trial he has in store for you to-morrow.”
Who acts: you, back, I · What happens: not succeed, do, pass, set, ascertain, have · To what, where: ordeal, you, trial, store
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 (you, back, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 succeed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 succeed | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 succeed | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 succeed | advmod |
| 8 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 doing | mark |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 succeed | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 doing | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pass | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pass | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 succeed | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 ordeal | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 ordeal | det |
| 19 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pass | obl |
| 20 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 16 pass | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pass | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 further | advmod |
| 27 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 task | advmod |
| 28 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 night | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ascertain | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ascertain | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 ascertain | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 ascertain | aux |
| 36 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 succeed | conj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ascertain | obl |
| 39 | during | during | ADP | _ | 41 evening | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 evening | det |
| 41 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ascertain | obl |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 evening | appos |
| 43 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 what | nsubj |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 has | nsubj |
| 45 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 trial | acl:relcl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 store | case |
| 47 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 has | obl |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 you | case |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 store | nmod |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 morrow | case |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 to | punct |
| 52 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 store | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeed | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not succeed | can | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | you | this ordeal | successfully property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ordeal=Location | |||
| 4 | set | future | back | you | night | task obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme task=Destination | ||
| 5 | ascertain | future | I | evening | from back | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | have | present | back | trial not said here | store for you to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=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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