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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 23

It chanced, however, that the shepherd boy who was in charge of the sheep had come to the Lama’s house looking for the one which was lost, and peeping in through the window had seen all that had happened.

Who acts: fill, shepherd boy, house, peeping, that · What happens: chance, be, come, look, lose, peep · To what, where: charge, house, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fill, shepherd boy, house, peeping), 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

nsubjpunctadvmodpunctmarkdetcompoundnsubjnsubjcopcaseacl:relclcasedetnmodauxparataxiscasedetnmod:posscaseoblaclcasedetoblnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclpunctcccsubj:passadvmodcasedetoblauxparataxisdet:predetnsubjauxconjpunctrootItPRONchancedVERB,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTthatSCONJtheDETshepherdNOUNboyNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXinADPchargeNOUNofADPtheDETsheepNOUNhadAUXcomeVERBtoADPtheDETLamaPROPN’sPARThouseNOUNlookingVERBforADPtheDEToneNOUNwhichPRONwasAUXlostVERB,PUNCTandCCONJpeepingVERBinADVthroughADPtheDETwindowNOUNhadAUXseenVERBallDETthatPRONhadAUXhappenedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 chancednsubj
2chancedchanceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_4 howeverpunct
4howeverhoweverADV_2 chancedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_18 comepunct
6thatthatSCONJ_18 comemark
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 boydet
8shepherdshepherdNOUNNumber=Sing9 boycompound
9boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing18 comensubj
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel13 chargensubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 chargecop
12ininADP_13 chargecase
13chargechargeNOUNNumber=Sing9 boyacl:relcl
14ofofADP_16 sheepcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 sheepdet
16sheepsheepNOUNNumber=Plur13 chargenmod
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 comeaux
18comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 chancedparataxis
19totoADP_23 housecase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Lamadet
21LamaLamaPROPNNumber=Sing23 housenmod:poss
22’s'sPART_21 Lamacase
23househouseNOUNNumber=Sing18 comeobl
24lookinglookVERBVerbForm=Ger23 houseacl
25forforADP_27 onecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 onedet
27oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing24 lookingobl
28whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 lostnsubj:pass
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 lostaux:pass
30lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 oneacl:relcl
31,,PUNCT_39 seenpunct
32andandCCONJ_39 seencc
33peepingpeepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part39 seencsubj:pass
34ininADV_33 peepingadvmod
35throughthroughADP_37 windowcase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 windowdet
37windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing33 peepingobl
38hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 seenaux
39seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 chancedparataxis
40allallDETPronType=Tot43 happeneddet:predet
41thatthatPRONPronType=Rel43 happenednsubj
42hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 happenedaux
43happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part39 seenconj
44..PUNCT_2 chancedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chancepastfillhowever propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2ispastthe shepherd boychargeof the sheeptree rules
3comepast · perfectthe shepherd boythe Lama's housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4lookgerundthe Lama's house not said herefor the onevn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme
5losepast · passivethe onevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6peepgerundthrough the windowvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
7seepast · perfectpeepingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8happenpast · perfectthatvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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