Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 68
“It is now near the time for the Ogre’s return.
Who acts: advice, Ogre · What happens: be, return
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 (advice, Ogre), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 time | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 return | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ogre | det |
| 10 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 return | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Ogre | case |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | advice | near the time; now | for the Ogre's return | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return in a quote | the Ogre | nom return «communication 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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