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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 45

Meanwhile the Thief went boldly up to the front door and gave a loud knock; and being admitted by the servants, he went straight to the chamber of the young lady of the house.

Who acts: Thief, servants · What happens: go, give, admit · To what, where: front door, loud knock, chamber

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 (Thief, servants), 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

advmoddetnsubjadvmodcasecasedetamodoblccconjdetamodobjpunctccaux:passparataxiscasedetoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootMeanwhileADVtheDETThiefNOUNwentVERBboldlyADVupADPtoADPtheDETfrontADJdoorNOUNandCCONJgaveVERBaDETloudADJknockNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJbeingAUXadmittedVERBbyADPtheDETservantsNOUN,PUNCThePRONwentVERBstraightADVtoADPtheDETchamberNOUNofADPtheDETyoungADJladyNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeanwhilemeanwhileADV_4 wentadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Thiefdet
3ThiefthiefNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5boldlyboldlyADVDegree=Pos4 wentadvmod
6upupADP_10 doorcase
7totoADP_10 doorcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 doordet
9frontfrontADJDegree=Pos10 dooramod
10doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
11andandCCONJ_12 gavecc
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 knockdet
14loudloudADJDegree=Pos15 knockamod
15knockknockNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
16;;PUNCT_19 admittedpunct
17andandCCONJ_19 admittedcc
18beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 admittedaux:pass
19admittedadmitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 wentparataxis
20bybyADP_22 servantscase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 servantsdet
22servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur19 admittedobl
23,,PUNCT_25 wentpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 wentnsubj
25wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 admittedconj
26straightstraightADV_29 chamberadvmod
27totoADP_29 chambercase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 chamberdet
29chamberchamberNOUNNumber=Sing25 wentobl
30ofofADP_33 ladycase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 ladydet
32youngyoungADJDegree=Pos33 ladyamod
33ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing29 chambernmod
34ofofADP_36 housecase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 housedet
36househouseNOUNNumber=Sing33 ladynmod
37..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastthe Thiefthe front doorboldly, meanwhile propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up door=Initial_Location
2givepastthe Thief not said herea loud knockvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme
3admit speech: othergerund · passivethe servantsvn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4gopastthiefthe chamber of the young lady of the housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location

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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