Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 78

This is really too good a chance to be lost; I must certainly go back at once and pick up the first boot, and then I shall have a pair of new boots for nothing.

Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, lose, go back, pick up, have · To what, where: first boot, pair

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 (This, I), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 lost	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chance	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 go	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pick	cc
20	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 pick	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boot	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 boot	amod
24	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pick	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 have	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pair	det
32	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 boots	case
34	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boots	amod
35	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pair	nmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 nothing	case
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 boots	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	This			a chance nsubj; good property	tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive · passive	This not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»
3	go back	must	I			certainly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	pick up	infinitive	I not said here	the first boot			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Topic
5	have	shall	I	a pair of new boots for nothing	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 78