Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 90
The Prince promised to obey the lady’s orders, and after again sending her into a trance by placing the magic flower behind her ear, he returned to the courtyard and awaited the Ogre’s return.
Who acts: Prince, Ogre, lady · What happens: promise, obey, send, place, return, await · To what, where: orders, wife, trance, magic flower, ear, 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 (Prince, Ogre, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 obey | mark |
| 5 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 orders | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 obey | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sending | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sending | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 sending | mark |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 sending | advmod |
| 14 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 promised | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sending | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 trance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trance | det |
| 18 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sending | obl |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 placing | mark |
| 20 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sending | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flower | det |
| 22 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flower | amod |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placing | obj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 26 ear | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ear | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placing | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 courtyard | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 courtyard | det |
| 32 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 awaited | cc |
| 34 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 returned | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Ogre | det |
| 36 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 return | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Ogre | case |
| 38 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 awaited | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Prince | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | the lady's orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | gerund | the Prince not said here | wife | a trance | again | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 4 | place | gerund | the Prince not said here | the magic flower | wife's ear | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme behind ear=Destination | |||
| 5 | return | past | Ogre | to the courtyard result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to courtyard=Result | ||||
| 6 | await | past | Ogre not said here | the Ogre's return | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | order | the lady | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | return | the Ogre | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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