Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 15

He had done a good morning’s work, and was walking a little further up the hill in order to search for some better timber, when, in a sheltered part of the hillside he suddenly found himself face to face with a large life-sized Lion carved out of the stone.

Who acts: boy, large sized Lion, good morning · What happens: do, walk, search, shelter, find, size · To what, where: work, order, boy, stone

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, large sized Lion, good morning), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 morning	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 morning	case
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walking	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	aux
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 done	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 further	obl
15	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 walking	advmod
16	up	up	ADP	_	18 hill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hill	det
18	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 further	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 order	case
20	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 search	mark
22	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 walking	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 timber	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 timber	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 timber	amod
26	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 search	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 when	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 done	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 part	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 part	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 part	det
32	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 part	amod
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 hillside	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hillside	det
36	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 part	nmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 found	nsubj
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	39 found	advmod
39	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hillside	acl:relcl
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 found	obj
41	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 found	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 face	case
43	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 face	nmod
44	with	with	SCONJ	_	51 carved	mark
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 Lion	det
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Lion	amod
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sized	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 life	punct
49	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 Lion	amod
50	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 carved	nsubj
51	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 found	advcl
52	out	out	ADP	_	55 stone	case
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 stone	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 stone	det
55	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 carved	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	boy	a good morning's work		a sheltered part of the hillside parataxis	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	walk	past · progressive	boy not said here		order	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory
3	search	to-infinitive	boy not said here			for some better timber	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for timber=Theme
4	shelter	participle					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	boy	boy		face obj; suddenly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute
6	size	participle				life compound	tree rules
7	carve out	past	a large sized Lion	the stone			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
8	work		a good morning				nom work «act 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 15

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 15