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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chanced | nsubj |
| 2 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 chanced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | compound |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 charge | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 charge | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 charge | case |
| 13 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sheep | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sheep | det |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 charge | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 chanced | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lama | det |
| 21 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Lama | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 house | acl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looking | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux:pass |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 one | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 seen | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 seen | cc |
| 33 | peeping | peep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 seen | csubj:pass |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 peeping | advmod |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 window | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 window | det |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 peeping | obl |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 seen | aux |
| 39 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chanced | parataxis |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 happened | det:predet |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 happened | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 happened | aux |
| 43 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 seen | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | fill | however property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the shepherd boy | charge | of the sheep | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | the shepherd boy | the Lama's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the Lama's house not said here | for the one | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | the one | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | peep | gerund | through the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | past · perfect | peeping | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn 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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