Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 50

The girl meanwhile had seated herself upon a couch in one corner of the room, and addressing the young man, she asked him who he was, and what he meant by thus thrusting himself upon the privacy of a lady.

Who acts: girl, man · What happens: seat, address, ask, mean, thrust · To what, where: girl, one corner, young 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 (girl, man), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	nsubj
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 seated	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seated	aux
5	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 seated	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 couch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 couch	det
9	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 corner	nummod
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seated	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 addressing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 addressing	cc
18	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 girl	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 addressing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girl	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	iobj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 asked	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 who	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meant	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 meant	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 meant	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 meant	nsubj
33	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 asked	parataxis
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 thrusting	mark
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	36 thrusting	advmod
36	thrusting	thrust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 meant	advcl
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 thrusting	obj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 privacy	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 privacy	det
40	privacy	privacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thrusting	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 lady	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 lady	det
43	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 privacy	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past · perfect	the girl not said here	girl		one corner of the room	upon a couch; meanwhile property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Value in corner=Location
2	address	gerund	the girl not said here		the young man			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past	the girl		man		who obj	tree rules
4	mean	past	man				what obj	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	thrust	gerund	man not said here	man			upon the privacy of a lady; thus property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 50

The tree

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 50