Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 37
Towards noon the Lady of the house came out into the yard, and as she was moving about superintending the various farming operations, it happened that a large and valuable turquoise fell out of her headdress without her noticing it.
Who acts: Towards noon, Lady, it, large turquoise · What happens: come out, move, superintend, happen, fall, notice · To what, where: various farming operations, headdress, house
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 (Towards noon, Lady, it, large turquoise), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 noon | compound |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lady | det |
| 4 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lady | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 yard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 yard | det |
| 12 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 happened | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 moving | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 moving | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 moving | aux |
| 18 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 happened | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 20 superintending | mark |
| 20 | superintending | superintend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 moving | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 operations | det |
| 22 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 operations | amod |
| 23 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 operations | compound |
| 24 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 superintending | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moving | punct |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 fell | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 turquoise | det |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 turquoise | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 valuable | cc |
| 32 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 large | conj |
| 33 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happened | advcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 headdress | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 headdress | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 headdress | nmod:poss |
| 38 | headdress | headdress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fell | obl |
| 39 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 41 noticing | mark |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 noticing | nsubj |
| 41 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 fell | advcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 noticing | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Towards noon | into the yard; the Lady of the house nsubj; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | past · progressive | Lady | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | superintend | gerund | Lady not said here | the various farming operations | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent operation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | a large turquoise | turquoise's headdress | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out headdress=Location | ||||
| 6 | notice | gerund | Lady | house | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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