Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 80

So thinking, he concealed the bag of gold under a tuft of grass by the roadside, and started off to retrace his steps to pick up the first boot.

Who acts: thief · What happens: think, conceal, start off, retrace, pick up, step · To what, where: bag, tuft, steps, first boot

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 thinking	advmod
2	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 concealed	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thinking	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 concealed	nsubj
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bag	det
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bag	nmod
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 tuft	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tuft	det
12	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tuft	nmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 roadside	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roadside	det
17	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 started	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 started	cc
20	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 concealed	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 started	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 retrace	mark
23	retrace	retrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 started	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 steps	nmod:poss
25	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 retrace	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pick	mark
27	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 retrace	advcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 pick	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boot	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 boot	amod
31	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pick	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 concealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	thief not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conceal	past	thief	the bag of gold	a tuft of grass	by the roadside	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Patient under tuft=Location
3	start off	past	thief not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	retrace	to-infinitive	thief not said here	thief's steps			tree rules
5	pick up	to-infinitive	thief not said here	the first boot			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Topic
6	step		thief				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 80