Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 59
Presently, coming to the crevice into which the rag had been thrust by the servant-maid, he moved the pig’s head violently to and fro.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: come, be, move, fro · To what, where: crevice, thrust, head
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), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 moved | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 crevice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crevice | det |
| 6 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 thrust | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 thrust | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rag | det |
| 10 | rag | rag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrust | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrust | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thrust | cop |
| 13 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 maid | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maid | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maid | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 18 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrust | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moved | nsubj |
| 21 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pig | det |
| 23 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 pig | case |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moved | obj |
| 26 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 21 moved | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 violently | fixed |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fro | cc |
| 29 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 moved | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | Boy not said here | the crevice | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crevice=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | thrust | by the servant maid; which nsubj; the rag nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | past | Boy | the pig's head | violently property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | Boy not said here | tree rules |
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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