Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 13
The poor man was very much surprised at hearing the Sparrow speak, and he thought to himself:
Who acts: poor man, pair · What happens: be, hear, think · To what, where: Sparrow speak, pair
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, pair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 surprised | advmod |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 surprised | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 speak | det |
| 11 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 speak | compound |
| 12 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 thought | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor man | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the poor man not said here | the Sparrow speak | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | pair | pair | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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