Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 24
This was at once accorded to him, and finding the King looking very depressed, he addressed him as follows:
Who acts: King · What happens: accord, find, look, address, follow · To what, where: This, King, friend
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 accorded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accorded | aux:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 accorded | obl |
| 5 | accorded | accord | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accorded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finding | cc |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 accorded | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 finding | obj |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 finding | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 depressed | advmod |
| 15 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 addressed | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 addressed | nsubj |
| 18 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accorded | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 addressed | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 follows | mark |
| 21 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 addressed | advcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 accorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | past · passive | This | King | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the King | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | depressed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | address | past | King | friend | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | King not said here | 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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