Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 48
They noticed that the old Cow contented herself with the driest and smallest patches of grass, whilst showing her Calf where to find the richest and most luxuriant pasture, and that she willingly deprived herself of any comfort in order to afford pleasure to the youngster.
Who acts: words, old Cow, Calf · What happens: notice, content, show, find, deprive, afford · To what, where: Cow, richest, Calf, order, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, old Cow, Calf), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 contented | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cow | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Cow | amod |
| 6 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contented | nsubj |
| 7 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 noticed | ccomp |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 contented | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 patches | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 patches | det |
| 11 | driest | dry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 patches | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smallest | cc |
| 13 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 driest | conj |
| 14 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 contented | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patches | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 showing | punct |
| 18 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 19 showing | mark |
| 19 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 contented | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Calf | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | nsubj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 find | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 showing | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 richest | det |
| 26 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pasture | cc |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 luxuriant | advmod |
| 29 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pasture | amod |
| 30 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 richest | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 deprived | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 deprived | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 deprived | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 deprived | nsubj |
| 35 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 36 deprived | advmod |
| 36 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 noticed | conj |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 deprived | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 comfort | case |
| 39 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 comfort | det |
| 40 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 deprived | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 order | case |
| 42 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 deprived | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 afford | mark |
| 44 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 deprived | advcl |
| 45 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 afford | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 youngster | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 youngster | det |
| 48 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 afford | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | words = word | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | content | past | the old Cow | Cow | with the driest patches of grass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | show | gerund | the old Cow not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | Cow's Calf | the richest and luxuriant pasture | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Topic | ||||
| 5 | deprive | past | Calf | Calf | order | of any comfort; willingly property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Source of comfort=Theme | ||
| 6 | afford | to-infinitive | Calf not said here | pleasure | to the youngster | 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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