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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 26

Coming timidly up to the door of the house, he peeped in at the guests, and presently one of the servants happening to pass by, he related his sad story.

Who acts: Boy, servants, one · What happens: come, peep in, happen, pass by, relate · To what, where: door, sad 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 (Boy, servants, one), 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

advcladvmodcasecasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctnsubjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctccadvmodnsubjcasedetnmodaclmarkxcompoblpunctnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjpunctrootComingVERBtimidlyADVupADPtoADPtheDETdoorNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCThePRONpeepedVERBinADPatADPtheDETguestsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJpresentlyADVoneNUMofADPtheDETservantsNOUNhappeningVERBtoPARTpassVERBbyADP,PUNCThePRONrelatedVERBhisPRONsadADJstoryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ComingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 peepedadvcl
2timidlytimidlyADV_1 Comingadvmod
3upupADP_6 doorcase
4totoADP_6 doorcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 doordet
6doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing1 Comingobl
7ofofADP_9 housecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 housedet
9househouseNOUNNumber=Sing6 doornmod
10,,PUNCT_1 Comingpunct
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 peepednsubj
12peepedpeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13ininADP_12 peepedcompound:prt
14atatADP_16 guestscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 guestsdet
16guestsguestNOUNNumber=Plur12 peepedobl
17,,PUNCT_30 relatedpunct
18andandCCONJ_30 relatedcc
19presentlypresentlyADV_20 oneadvmod
20oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 relatednsubj
21ofofADP_23 servantscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 servantsdet
23servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur20 onenmod
24happeninghappenVERBVerbForm=Ger23 servantsacl
25totoPART_26 passmark
26passpassVERBVerbForm=Inf24 happeningxcomp
27bybyADP_26 passobl
28,,PUNCT_30 relatedpunct
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 relatednsubj
30relatedrelateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 peepedconj
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 storynmod:poss
32sadsadADJDegree=Pos33 storyamod
33storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing30 relatedobj
34..PUNCT_12 peepedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comegerundBoy not said herethe door of the housetimidly propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up door=Initial_Location
2peep inpastBoyat the guestsvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at guest=Theme
3happengerundthe servants not said heretree rules
4pass byto-infinitivethe servants not said herevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5relatepastone of the servantsBoy's sad storyBoy nsubjvn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

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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