Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 13
It came so suddenly that he had no time to hit it with his stone, or to interrupt its flight.
Who acts: fox, Boy · What happens: come, have, hit, interrupt · To what, where: fox, flight
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 (fox, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 suddenly | advmod |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hit | mark |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hit | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stone | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 interrupt | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 interrupt | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 interrupt | mark |
| 19 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 flight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interrupt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | fox | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Boy | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hit | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | fox | with Boy's stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 4 | interrupt | to-infinitive | fox not said here | fox's flight | tree rules |
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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