Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 88
“No, no,” broke in the Tiger; “it was I who was shut up in the Woodcutter’s hut.”
Who acts: hut · What happens: break, be, shut up · To what, where: creatures, hut
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 (hut), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 broke | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Tiger | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tiger | det |
| 10 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shut | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 shut | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 I | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 I | cop |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shut | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shut | aux:pass |
| 18 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 broke | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 shut | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hut | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Woodcutter | det |
| 22 | Woodcutter | Woodcutter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hut | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Woodcutter | case |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shut | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | in the Tiger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tiger=Location | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | hut | creatures = creature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shut up in a quote | past · passive | creatures = creature | the Woodcutter's hut | who nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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