Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 29
He soon arrived at the house in question, and found the whole family in great grief, and the poor mistress of the house suffering torments with the pain in her ear.
Who acts: Boy, poor mistress · What happens: arrive, find, suffer · To what, where: house, whole family, great grief, torments
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 (Boy, poor 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 question | case |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 family | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 family | amod |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 grief | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grief | amod |
| 17 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 suffering | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 suffering | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mistress | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mistress | amod |
| 22 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suffering | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mistress | nmod |
| 26 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 found | advcl |
| 27 | torments | torment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 suffering | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 pain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pain | det |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suffering | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 ear | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 ear | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pain | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Boy | the house | in question; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | Boy not said here | the whole family | great grief | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Topic | |||
| 3 | suffer | gerund | the poor mistress of the house | torments | with the pain in mistress's ear | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torment=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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