Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 29

The poor woman was at first quite frightened at seeing so much wealth, but her son, having explained to her how he had come by it, she became greatly excited, and pleased.

Who acts: wealth, woman · What happens: be, see, have, explain, come, become · To what, where: poor woman, much wealth, woman

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 (wealth, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 frightened	obl
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 seeing	mark
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 frightened	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wealth	amod
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seeing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 son	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 son	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	vocative
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 having	punct
19	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 frightened	advcl
20	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 having	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 explained	obl
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 come	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 explained	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 became	nsubj
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	parataxis
32	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	33 excited	advmod
33	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pleased	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pleased	cc
36	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 became	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		the poor woman		woman's son vocative; frighten property	tree rules
2	see	gerund		much wealth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus
3	have	gerund					tree rules
4	explain speech: assert	participle			woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
5	come	past · perfect	wealth			by bucket	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location
6	become	past	woman			excited property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 29