Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 79
Next morning the Ogre started off soon after daylight on his own business, and as soon as he was gone the Prince ran upstairs to the glass room, where he found the lady lying in a trance as before.
Who acts: Ogre, Prince, lady · What happens: start off, be, run, find, lie · To what, where: own business, lady, trance
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, lady), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ogre | det |
| 4 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 started | advmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 daylight | case |
| 9 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 business | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 business | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 business | amod |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 gone | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | cop |
| 21 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 started | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | parataxis |
| 25 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 room | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 room | det |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 room | compound |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 found | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | nsubj |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 room | acl:relcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lady | det |
| 35 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 36 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 lady | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 trance | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 trance | det |
| 39 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lying | obl |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 before | case |
| 41 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 lying | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the Ogre | Ogre's own business | after daylight; morning | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | is | past | Ogre | gone, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the Prince | to the glass room result; upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Ogre | the lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | the lady not said here | a trance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=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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