Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 90
“Yes, I am a very handsome shell,” replied the cowrie, to the terror and astonishment of the groom.
Who acts: handsome shell · What happens: be, reply, astonish · To what, where: handsome shell, cowrie, groom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (handsome shell), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shell | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 shell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 shell | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shell | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shell | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 handsome | advmod |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shell | amod |
| 9 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shell | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cowrie | det |
| 14 | cowrie | cowrie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 terror | punct |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 terror | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 terror | det |
| 18 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 astonishment | cc |
| 20 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 terror | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 groom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 groom | det |
| 23 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 astonishment | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a handsome shell = shell | a handsome shell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a handsome shell | the cowrie | the terror and astonishment of the groom parataxis | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cowrie=Topic | |||
| 3 | astonish | the groom | nom astonishment «feeling 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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