Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 4

One night, as the two were sitting together after dinner, a fox began to bark in the palace grounds outside.

Who acts: One night, fox, palace · What happens: sit, begin, bark, ground

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 (One night, fox, palace), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 two	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	aux
8	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sitting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sitting	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bark	mark
17	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	21 grounds	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grounds	nsubj
21	grounds	ground	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bark	advcl
22	outside	outside	ADV	_	21 grounds	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	One night as the two	after dinner	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	a fox			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bark	to-infinitive	a fox not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ground	present	the palace		outside property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 4