Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 11

Next morning early the boy, taking an axe with him, went out on to the hillside and began chopping wood.

Who acts: boy · What happens: take, go out, begin, chop · To what, where: axe, wood

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod:unmarked
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 boy	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 taking	punct
7	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 boy	acl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 axe	det
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taking	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	on	on	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hillside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hillside	det
18	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
21	chopping	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 began	xcomp
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chopping	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	the boy Next morning not said here	a axe	with boy	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	go out	past	the boy Next morning		to the hillside; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	the boy Next morning not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	chop	gerund	the boy Next morning not said here	wood		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

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 Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 11

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 11