Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 58

Having got rid of these two persons, the Boy now began to walk round the yard, the pig’s snout apparently sniffing carefully at every part of the wall in the farm buildings.

Who acts: Boy, snout · What happens: have, get, begin, walk, sniff · To what, where: part

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, snout), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 persons	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 persons	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 persons	nummod
7	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Boy	det
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 began	advmod
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 walk	mark
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 yard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walk	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sniffing	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pig	det
20	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snout	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 pig	case
22	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sniffing	nsubj
23	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	24 sniffing	advmod
24	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	parataxis
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	24 sniffing	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 part	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 part	det
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sniffing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wall	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wall	det
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 buildings	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 buildings	det
34	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 buildings	compound
35	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sniffing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get	past				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	the Boy		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here			round the yard	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round yard=Trajectory
5	sniff	gerund	the pig's snout	every part of the wall		in the farm buildings; apparently, carefully property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in building=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 58

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 58