Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 24

The old Man, seeing before him only a poor Boy, without even a hat or a cloak, did not believe a word of this story, so he only laughed at him and mocked him; and finally, when the Boy grew angry, gave him a sound beating, and left him to go on his way disconsolate.

Who acts: old Man, Boy · What happens: see, not believe, laugh, mock, grow, give · To what, where: poor Boy, word, Boy, sound beating, way disconsolate, story

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 (old Man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 believe	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeing	punct
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Man	acl
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seeing	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 Boy	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Boy	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Boy	amod
11	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seeing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hat	punct
13	without	without	ADP	_	16 hat	case
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 hat	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hat	det
16	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeing	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 cloak	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloak	det
19	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Man	punct
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 believe	advmod
23	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 believe	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 story	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 word	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 laughed	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 laughed	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 laughed	nsubj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 laughed	advmod
33	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 laughed	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 mocked	cc
37	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 laughed	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mocked	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 grew	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 grew	cc
41	finally	finally	ADV	_	46 grew	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 grew	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 grew	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Boy	det
45	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 grew	nsubj
46	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 believe	parataxis
47	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 grew	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 gave	punct
49	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 grew	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 gave	iobj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 beating	det
52	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 beating	compound
53	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 gave	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 left	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 left	cc
56	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 grew	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 left	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 go	mark
59	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 left	advcl
60	on	on	ADP	_	63 disconsolate	case
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 disconsolate	nmod:poss
62	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 disconsolate	compound
63	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the old Man not said here	a poor Boy			before Boy	without a hat or a cloak	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not believe	past · do-support	the old Man	a word of this story					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	laugh	past	Boy					at Father	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mock	past	Boy not said here	Boy					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	grow	past	the Boy					angry, finally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	past	the Boy not said here	a sound beating	Boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient beating=Theme
7	leave	past	the Boy not said here	Boy					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	go	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here			Boy's way disconsolate			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on disconsolate=Location
9	word			this story					nom word «communication 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 24

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 24