Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 91

Just before dusk the Ogre came back and as the Princess had predicted he proceeded at once to the great audience hall, and seated himself on his chair of state.

Who acts: Ogre · What happens: come back, predict, proceed, seat · To what, where: Princess, Ogre, chair

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), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 dusk	case
3	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Just	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ogre	det
5	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 proceeded	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 predicted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 predicted	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 predicted	aux
13	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 proceeded	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proceeded	nsubj
15	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 proceeded	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 hall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hall	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hall	amod
21	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hall	compound
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proceeded	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seated	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seated	cc
25	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 seated	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 chair	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chair	nmod:poss
29	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seated	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 state	case
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chair	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Ogre				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	predict	past · perfect · passive		the Princess			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	proceed	past	Ogre			to the great audience hall	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	seat	past	the Ogre not said here	Ogre	Ogre's chair of state		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 91

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 91