Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 30

After going some way she came suddenly upon an open clearing in the grass, in the middle of which a very old man, with a white beard reaching almost to his waist, was seated before a small fire cooking himself some food.

Who acts: Queen, white beard, small fire · What happens: go, come, reach, seat, cook · To what, where: way, middle, waist, old man, man

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 (Queen, white beard, small fire), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 going	mark
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl:unmarked
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	acl:relcl
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 clearing	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clearing	det
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 clearing	amod
11	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clearing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 middle	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 seated	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 old	advmod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seated	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 beard	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 beard	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 beard	det
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 beard	amod
29	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	appos
30	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 beard	acl
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	34 waist	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 waist	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 waist	nmod:poss
34	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reaching	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seated	aux:pass
37	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 middle	acl:relcl
38	before	before	ADP	_	41 fire	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fire	det
40	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fire	amod
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seated	obl
42	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 fire	acl
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 cooking	obj
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 food	det
45	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cooking	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund		some way	the middle			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
2	come	past	Queen	some way not said here			upon a open clearing in the grass; suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	reach	gerund	a white beard not said here	man's waist				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent waist=Theme
4	seat	past · passive		a old man		before a small fire	of the middle	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
5	cook	gerund	a small fire not said here	man			some food obj	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary food=Product

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 Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 30