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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 5

“Well,” replied Father Raven, “the fact is, I was visiting a farmhouse down yonder, where the mistress of the house, as it happens, is very ill.

Who acts: Father Raven, fact, it, mistress · What happens: reply, be, happen · To what, where: mistress · 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 (Father Raven, fact, it, 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

punctdiscoursepunctpunctcompoundobjpunctpunctdetnsubj:outercoppunctnsubjauxadvcldetobjcompound:prtadvmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjcasedetnmodpunctmarknsubjaclpunctcopadvmodadvclpunctroot“PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBFatherPROPNRavenPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTtheDETfactNOUNisAUX,PUNCTIPRONwasAUXvisitingVERBaDETfarmhouseNOUNdownADPyonderADV,PUNCTwhereADVtheDETmistressNOUNofADPtheDEThouseNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJitPRONhappensVERB,PUNCTisAUXveryADVillADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
2WellwellINTJ_5 replieddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Wellpunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6FatherFatherPROPNNumber=Sing7 Ravencompound
7RavenRavenPROPNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_16 visitingpunct
9“"PUNCT_16 visitingpunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 factdet
11factfactNOUNNumber=Sing16 visitingnsubj:outer
12isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 visitingcop
13,,PUNCT_12 ispunct
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 visitingnsubj
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 visitingaux
16visitingvisitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 repliedadvcl
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 farmhousedet
18farmhousefarmhouseNOUNNumber=Sing16 visitingobj
19downdownADP_16 visitingcompound:prt
20yonderyonderADV_16 visitingadvmod
21,,PUNCT_35 illpunct
22wherewhereADVPronType=Rel35 illadvmod
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 mistressdet
24mistressmistressNOUNNumber=Sing35 illnsubj
25ofofADP_27 housecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 housedet
27househouseNOUNNumber=Sing24 mistressnmod
28,,PUNCT_31 happenspunct
29asasSCONJ_31 happensmark
30ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 happensnsubj
31happenshappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 mistressacl
32,,PUNCT_31 happenspunct
33isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 illcop
34veryveryADV_35 illadvmod
35illillADJDegree=Pos16 visitingadvcl
36..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastFather Ravenvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is in a quotepresent · progressivethe factI nsubj; a farmhouse obj; visit, yonder propertytree rules
3happen in a quotepresentitthe mistress of the house not said heretree rules
4is in a quotepresentthe mistress of the houseill propertytree 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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