Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 57
Scarcely was he securely hidden within the pillar when the door of the cave flew open, and a huge Ogre entered the central chamber.
Who acts: door, huge Ogre · What happens: hide, fly, enter · To what, where: Scarcely, central chamber
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 (door, huge Ogre), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hidden | nsubj |
| 4 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 5 hidden | advmod |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 pillar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pillar | det |
| 8 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 flew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | advcl |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flew | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 entered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entered | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Ogre | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ogre | amod |
| 21 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | nsubj |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chamber | det |
| 24 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chamber | amod |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | Scarcely | within the pillar; securely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the door of the cave | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | a huge Ogre | the central chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
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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