Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 62
The Mistress of the house on recovering her turquoise was greatly elated.
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: recover, elate · To what, where: turquoise, Mistress
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 (Mistress), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mistress | det |
| 2 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 elated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mistress | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 recovering | mark |
| 7 | recovering | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Mistress | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 turquoise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovering | obj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 elated | aux:pass |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 12 elated | advmod |
| 12 | elated | elate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 elated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | gerund | the Mistress of the house not said here | Mistress's turquoise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turquoise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | elate | past · passive | the Mistress of the house | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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