Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 73
On entering the kitchen the Ogre pointed to a great stove standing in the centre, and said to the Prince:
Who acts: Ogre, great stove · What happens: enter, point, stand, say · To what, where: kitchen, great stove, centre, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ogre, great stove), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 entering | mark |
| 2 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pointed | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kitchen | det |
| 4 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entering | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ogre | det |
| 6 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pointed | nsubj |
| 7 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stove | amod |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pointed | obl |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stove | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 centre | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 centre | det |
| 15 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pointed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the Ogre not said here | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination | ||||
| 2 | point | past | the Ogre | a great stove | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stove=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a great stove not said here | the centre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Ogre not said here | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient |
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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