Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 30
Next day the widow and her son set about placing themselves in more comfortable circumstances.
Who acts: widow · What happens: set, place · To what, where: widow, more comfortable circumstances
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 (widow), 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 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 widow | det |
| 4 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 son | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 widow | conj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 placing | mark |
| 10 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 set | advcl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 placing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 circumstances | case |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 circumstances | amod |
| 14 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 circumstances | amod |
| 15 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the widow and woman's son | day | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | gerund | the widow and woman's son not said here | widow | more comfortable circumstances | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in circumstance=Destination |
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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