Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 34

No sooner had she done so than the Spiders inside, seeing the green expanse with water still lying upon it, thought that the spring had come and began moving about, and the old Mother Spider at once let herself down by a thread to see if it was really spring.

Who acts: piece, spring, water · What happens: do, see, lie, think, come, begin · To what, where: green expanse, water, piece, spring · 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 (piece, spring, water), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 done	advmod
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Spiders	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Spiders	det
9	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 done	obl
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 done	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeing	punct
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 done	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 expanse	det
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 expanse	amod
15	expanse	expanse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seeing	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seeing	obl
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 lying	advmod
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 seeing	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lying	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spring	det
26	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 thought	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	conj
31	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 began	xcomp
32	about	about	ADV	_	31 moving	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Spider	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Spider	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Spider	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Spider	amod
37	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Spider	compound
38	Spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	parataxis
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 once	case
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 let	obl
41	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 done	parataxis
42	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 let	obj
43	down	down	ADP	_	41 let	compound:prt
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 thread	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 thread	det
46	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 let	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 see	mark
48	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 thread	acl
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 spring	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 spring	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 spring	cop
52	really	really	ADV	_	53 spring	advmod
53	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 see	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	piece				than the Spiders; the old Mother Spider parataxis; inside, soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund		the green expanse			with water	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer expanse=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund			water	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
4	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come	past · perfect	the spring					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	the spring not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	move about	gerund	the spring not said here				about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	let down	infinitive		piece			by a thread	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at once=Asset
9	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	water	spring				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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 34

The tree

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 34