Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 33
When these things had been made ready he spread the piece of green cloth on the table and sprinkled some water over it, and he then told the Lady of the house to lean across the table so that her painful ear should come above the patch of green cloth.
Who acts: Boy, painful ear · What happens: make, spread, sprinkle, tell, lean, come · To what, where: things, piece, table, water, Lady, patch · Speech: someone speaks here
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, painful ear), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 spread | advcl |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spread | nsubj |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cloth | case |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cloth | amod |
| 14 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sprinkled | cc |
| 19 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spread | conj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprinkled | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sprinkled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | nsubj |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 told | advmod |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spread | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Lady | det |
| 30 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 told | iobj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 house | det |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Lady | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 lean | mark |
| 35 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 told | ccomp |
| 36 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 table | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 table | det |
| 38 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lean | obl |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 45 come | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 so | fixed |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 ear | nmod:poss |
| 42 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ear | amod |
| 43 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 come | nsubj |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 come | aux |
| 45 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 lean | advcl |
| 46 | above | above | ADP | _ | 48 patch | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 patch | det |
| 48 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 come | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 cloth | case |
| 50 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 cloth | amod |
| 51 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 patch | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | this things | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | Boy | the piece of green cloth | the table | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 3 | sprinkle | past | Boy not said here | some water | water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over it=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Boy | the Lady of the house | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | lean not said to happen | to-infinitive | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | should | piece's painful ear | the patch of green cloth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above patch=Location |
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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