Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 77
The Ogre was very angry at hearing this, but he was unable to refuse, so he started off and ran round the stove three times, the Prince following closely at his heels.
Who acts: Ogre, Prince · What happens: be, hear, refuse, start off, run, follow · To what, where: this, stove, heels
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ogre | det |
| 2 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 angry | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 unable | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unable | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unable | cop |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 angry | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 refuse | mark |
| 15 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 started | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 started | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unable | parataxis |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 started | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 started | conj |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 stove | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stove | det |
| 25 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Prince | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Prince | det |
| 30 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 31 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 Prince | acl |
| 32 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 31 following | advmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 heels | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heels | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 following | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Ogre | the Prince parataxis; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the Ogre not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ogre | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refuse | to-infinitive | Ogre not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | start off | past | Ogre | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | run | past | Ogre not said here | the stove | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round stove=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | follow | gerund | the Prince not said here | Ogre's heels | closely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |
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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