Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 12

By evening he had chopped a fine big bundle of wood, and taking it down into the town he sold it in the market for a good sum of money.

Who acts: boy · What happens: chop, take down, sell, sum · To what, where: fine big bundle, wood, town, market, money

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	By	by	ADP	_	2 evening	case
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	aux
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bundle	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bundle	amod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bundle	amod
9	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wood	case
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bundle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sold	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sold	cc
14	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 sold	csubj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 taking	compound:prt
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sold	nsubj
21	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopped	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sold	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 market	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 market	det
25	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sold	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 sum	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sum	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sum	amod
29	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sold	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 money	case
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sum	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · perfect	boy	a fine big bundle of wood		evening		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient
2	take down	gerund		wood	the town			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	sell	past	boy	wood	the market		for a good sum of money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for sum=Asset
4	sum			money				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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 12

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 12