Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 72
“Ah!” thought he, “that foolish fellow has dropped one of his boots in his haste.
What happens: think, drop · To what, where: thief, foolish fellow, haste · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dropped | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fellow | det |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | aux |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dropped | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 boots | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 boots | nmod:poss |
| 17 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 haste | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 haste | nmod:poss |
| 20 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | thief | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drop in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that foolish fellow | thief's haste | one of thief's boots obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme one=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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