Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 80
He took the flower from behind her ear, and she immediately woke up and looked about her.
Who acts: Ogre, wife · What happens: take, wake up, look · To what, where: flower, ear
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, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ear | case |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 ear | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 woke | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 woke | nsubj |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 woke | advmod |
| 13 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 woke | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 woke | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ogre | the flower | wife's ear | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flower=Theme from ear=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wake up | past | wife | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | wife not said here | about wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
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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