Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 24
Sure enough, when the Sparrow grew up it flew into his house one day, and perched on the table before him.
Who acts: Sparrow, nest · What happens: grow up, fly, perch · To what, where: house, table
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 (Sparrow, nest), 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 | Sure | sure | ADV | _ | 7 grew | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sure | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 grew | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sparrow | det |
| 6 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 flew | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 perched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perched | cc |
| 18 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grew | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 perched | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 perched | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the Sparrow | sure property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | nest | day | into change's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | |||
| 3 | perch | participle | the Sparrow not said here | the table | before change | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
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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