Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 35

He could not stand this very long, so finally, screwing up his courage, he went to the back door of the house, and asked one of the servants to lend him a knife, saying that he wanted it to cut up the dry meat which formed his breakfast.

Who acts: slank, one, knife, dry meat · What happens: not stand, screw up, go, ask, lend, say · To what, where: this, courage, back door, one, knife, slank · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (slank, one, knife, dry meat), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stand	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stand	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 screwing	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 finally	advmod
10	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 screwing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 screwing	punct
12	screwing	screw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stand	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 screwing	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 courage	nmod:poss
15	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 screwing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
21	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 door	amod
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 door	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 asked	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 servants	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 servants	det
32	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lend	mark
34	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 asked	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lend	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 knife	det
37	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lend	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saying	punct
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 asked	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 wanted	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	nsubj
42	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 saying	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wanted	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 cut	mark
45	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wanted	xcomp
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 cut	compound:prt
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 meat	det
48	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 meat	amod
49	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obj
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 formed	nsubj
51	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 meat	acl:relcl
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 breakfast	nmod:poss
53	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 formed	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	slank	this			long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	screw up	gerund	slank not said here	slank's courage			finally property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
3	go	past	slank			the back door of the house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	slank not said here	one of the servants				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
5	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	one of the servants not said here	a knife	slank			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient knife=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	slank not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want	past	slank	knife				tree rules
8	cut up not said to happen	to-infinitive	knife not said here	the dry meat				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Product
9	form	past	the dry meat	slank's breakfast				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breakfast=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 35

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 35