Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 51
And worst of all, when he glanced at his bucket of gold he saw, to his horror, that instead of gold it held nothing but stones and earth.
Who acts: Lion, gold · What happens: glance, see, hold · To what, where: gold, nothing
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 (Lion, gold), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glanced | cc |
| 2 | worst | bad | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 glanced | advmod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 worst | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glanced | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 glanced | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 glanced | nsubj |
| 8 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bucket | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bucket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glanced | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bucket | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gold | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 horror | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 horror | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horror | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glanced | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gold | punct |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 gold | det |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 gold | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 horror | appos |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 held | nsubj |
| 26 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gold | acl:relcl |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 held | obj |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 stones | cc |
| 29 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 nothing | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 earth | cc |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nothing | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | Lion | to Lion's horror; at Lion's bucket of gold; bad property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bucket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Lion | gold not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | gold | nothing stones earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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