Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 26
The King was greatly pleased at hearing his opinion confirmed, and at once gave orders that the Queen should be sent adrift on the river astride a log of wood.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, hear, confirm, give, send, opine · To what, where: opinion, orders, Queen, river
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 confirmed | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearing | obj |
| 10 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 gave | obl |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 16 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sent | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sent | aux:pass |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 gave | advcl |
| 23 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sent | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 river | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 river | det |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 27 | astride | astride | ADP | _ | 29 log | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 log | det |
| 29 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 log | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | King's opinion | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer opinion=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | confirm | past | the King not said here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the King not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 5 | send | should · passive | the Queen | the river | astride a log of wood; adrift property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 6 | opine | King | nom opinion «cognition 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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