Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 10
After running for some distance the fox suddenly disappeared into his earth, and the Boy, riding up, dismounted at the mouth of the hole, and began to scheme how he was to catch the fox when he came out.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: run, disappear, ride up, dismount, begin, scheme · To what, where: fox, Boy, earth, mouth
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 running | mark |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 distance | det |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 disappeared | advmod |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 earth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disappeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Boy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 disappeared | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 riding | punct |
| 18 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 riding | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dismounted | punct |
| 21 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 riding | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mouth | det |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dismounted | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hole | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mouth | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 began | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 began | cc |
| 30 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disappeared | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 scheme | mark |
| 32 | scheme | scheme | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 began | xcomp |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 catch | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 catch | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 catch | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 catch | mark |
| 37 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 scheme | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fox | det |
| 39 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 catch | obj |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 came | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 catch | advcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 came | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | the fox | for some distance | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fox=Product for distance=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the Boy | Boy's earth | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ride up | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dismount | participle | the mouth of the hole | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | scheme | to-infinitive | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | Boy | the fox obj; catch property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come out | past | Boy | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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