Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 85
“I have ascertained what the Ogre proposes to do when he returns this evening.
Who acts: wife, Ogre · What happens: ascertain, propose, do, return
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 (wife, Ogre), 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 | _ | 4 ascertained | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ascertained | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ascertained | aux |
| 4 | ascertained | ascertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 ascertained | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ogre | det |
| 7 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proposes | nsubj |
| 8 | proposes | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proposes | xcomp |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 returns | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 returns | nsubj |
| 13 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | ccomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returns | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ascertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain in a quote | present · perfect | wife | what obj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | propose in a quote | present | the Ogre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the Ogre not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | return in a quote | present | Ogre | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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