Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 87

When he arrived in the courtyard he sat himself down upon the King’s mounting-block, and muttering the necessary spell, he was at once transformed into a large cowrie-shell.

Who acts: Baki · What happens: arrive, sit down, mutter, transform · To what, where: courtyard, Baki, necessary spell, large cowrie shell

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 (Baki), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 transformed	advcl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 courtyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courtyard	det
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 sat	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 block	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 block	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	mounting	mounting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 block	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 mounting	punct
17	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 muttering	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 muttering	cc
20	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 arrived	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spell	det
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spell	amod
23	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 muttering	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 transformed	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 transformed	aux:pass
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 once	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 transformed	obl
29	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	into	into	ADP	_	35 shell	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shell	det
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shell	amod
33	cowrie	cowrie	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shell	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 cowrie	punct
35	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 transformed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 transformed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Baki		the courtyard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	Baki	Baki		upon the King's mounting block	tree rules
3	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Baki not said here	the necessary spell			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
4	transform	past · passive		Baki		into a large cowrie shell result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into shell=Result

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 87