Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 47
All at once the deer galloped straight up to what appeared to be a precipitous rock, and touching the rock with her muzzle, it flew asunder, revealing the entrance to a great cave within; and as she crossed the threshold of the cave her skin fell from her, and she appeared in the form of a beautiful young woman.
Who acts: All, rock, doe, skin · What happens: gallop, appear, be, touch, fly, reveal · To what, where: precipitous rock, rock, asunder, entrance, great cave, threshold
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 (All, rock, doe, skin), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 galloped | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 deer | case |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 deer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 6 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 galloped | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 up | obl |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rock | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rock | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 15 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rock | amod |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touching | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touching | cc |
| 19 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 galloped | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touching | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 muzzle | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 muzzle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | muzzle | muzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touching | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 galloped | parataxis |
| 28 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 revealing | punct |
| 30 | revealing | reveal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 flew | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 entrance | det |
| 32 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 revealing | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 cave | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 cave | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cave | amod |
| 36 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 revealing | obl |
| 37 | within | within | ADP | _ | 30 revealing | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 crossed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 crossed | cc |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 crossed | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 crossed | nsubj |
| 42 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 galloped | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 threshold | det |
| 44 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 crossed | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 cave | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 cave | det |
| 47 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 threshold | nmod |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 skin | nmod:poss |
| 49 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fell | nsubj |
| 50 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 cave | acl:relcl |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 her | case |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fell | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 appeared | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 appeared | cc |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 appeared | nsubj |
| 56 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 galloped | parataxis |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 form | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 form | det |
| 59 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 appeared | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 woman | case |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 woman | det |
| 62 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 woman | amod |
| 63 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 woman | amod |
| 64 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 form | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | All at the deer | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a precipitous rock | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | touch | gerund | All at the deer not said here | the rock | with doe's muzzle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Experiencer with muzzle=Instrument | |||
| 5 | fly | past | rock | asunder | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reveal | gerund | rock not said here | the entrance | a great cave | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent entrance=Topic to cave=Recipient | |||
| 7 | cross | past | doe | the threshold of the cave | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | ||||
| 8 | fall | past | doe's skin | the cave not said here | from doe | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient cave=Extent from she=Initial_State | |||
| 9 | appear | past | doe | the form of a beautiful young woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | ||||
| 10 | form | a beautiful young woman | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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