Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 98
Leaving the body where it lay, the Prince ran up to the glass room as fast as he could, and having awakened the lady from her sleep, he told her what had happened.
Who acts: Prince, ground, Ogre, wife · What happens: leave, lie, run up, awaken, tell, happen · To what, where: body, lady, sleep, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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, ground, 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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ran | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lay | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 body | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ran | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 could | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 could | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fast | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 awakened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 awakened | cc |
| 23 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 awakened | aux |
| 24 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ran | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lady | det |
| 26 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 awakened | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 sleep | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lady | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | nsubj |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 happened | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 happened | aux |
| 36 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 told | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the Prince not said here | the body | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run up | past | the Prince | to the glass room result; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | ||||
| 4 | awaken | gerund · perfect | the Prince not said here | the lady | wife's sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Ogre | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sleep | wife | nom sleep «state 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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