Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 37

As soon as they were all, to the number of seven, arrived upon the table, the Boy snatched up the piece of cloth, and wrapping up the spiders inside it, he carried them all outside and destroyed them.

Who acts: family, Boy · What happens: be, arrive, snatch up, wrap up, carry, destroy · To what, where: piece, spiders, cloth, family

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 (family, Boy), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 arrived	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 number	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 number	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 number	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	10 number	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 all	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 number	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 number	det
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 seven	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 number	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 number	punct
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 snatched	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Boy	det
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 snatched	nsubj
21	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arrived	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 snatched	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 snatched	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wrapping	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wrapping	cc
29	wrapping	wrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 arrived	advcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 wrapping	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spiders	det
32	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wrapping	obj
33	inside	inside	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spiders	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carried	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 carried	nsubj
37	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arrived	parataxis
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 carried	obj
39	all	all	ADV	_	40 outside	advmod
40	outside	outside	ADV	_	37 carried	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 destroyed	cc
42	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 carried	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 destroyed	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	family			to the number; of seven; all property	tree rules
2	arrive	past				upon the table; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snatch up	past	the Boy	the piece of cloth			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
4	wrap up	gerund		the spiders	cloth		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spider=Theme inside it=Destination
5	carry	past	Boy	family		outside property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	destroy	past	Boy not said here	family			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 37