Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 75
“It is so dark in here,” replied the Prince, “that I cannot see my way at all clearly.
Who acts: stove, Prince · What happens: be, reply, not see · To what, where: way, all · 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 (stove, Prince), 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 | _ | 5 dark | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 dark | advmod |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 here | case |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dark | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 see | obl |
| 24 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | stove | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | the Prince = prince | my way | all | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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