Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 12

If it were possible to make the Spiders believe that spring had arrived, they would come out of the ear at once; otherwise they will remain there all through the winter.”

Who acts: Spider, Spiders, spring, Ravens · What happens: be, make, believe, arrive, come out, remain

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spider, Spiders, spring, Ravens), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 possible	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possible	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Spiders	det
8	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 believe	nsubj
9	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arrived	aux
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 come	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 believe	parataxis
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 ear	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ear	det
21	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 come	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
25	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	28 remain	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 remain	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remain	aux
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 remain	advmod
30	all	all	ADV	_	33 winter	advmod
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 winter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 winter	det
33	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remain	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Spider			possible property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	believe	present	the Spiders				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	arrive	past · perfect	spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come out	would	Ravens = raven			of the ear; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	remain	future	Ravens = raven	there	winter	otherwise property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/24/12/

🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 12