Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 31
The seeds sprouted and grew very fast, and one morning, when he went out as usual to see how his crop was doing, to his astonishment he found that instead of a few stalks of barley, as he had expected, a great fierce-looking man, with a bundle of papers under his arm, was standing in the middle of the bed.
Who acts: seeds, change, crop, few stalks · What happens: sprout, grow, go out, see, do, find · To what, where: change, middle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (seeds, change, crop, few stalks), 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 | 2 seeds | det |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprouted | nsubj |
| 3 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprouted | conj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 morning | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 morning | nummod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprouted | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprouted | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 usual | case |
| 18 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 doing | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 crop | nmod:poss |
| 23 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 doing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 doing | aux |
| 25 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 astonishment | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 29 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprouted | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 63 standing | mark |
| 33 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 37 stalks | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 instead | fixed |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 stalks | det |
| 36 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 stalks | amod |
| 37 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 standing | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 barley | case |
| 39 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stalks | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 expected | punct |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 expected | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 expected | aux |
| 44 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 stalks | acl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 man | punct |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 man | det |
| 47 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 man | amod |
| 48 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 looking | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 fierce | punct |
| 50 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 man | amod |
| 51 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 expected | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 bundle | punct |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 bundle | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 bundle | det |
| 55 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 man | appos |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 papers | case |
| 57 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 bundle | nmod |
| 58 | under | under | ADP | _ | 60 arm | case |
| 59 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 arm | nmod:poss |
| 60 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 papers | nmod |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stalks | punct |
| 62 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 standing | aux |
| 63 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 found | advcl |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 66 middle | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 middle | det |
| 66 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 standing | obl |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 bed | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 bed | det |
| 69 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 middle | nmod |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprout | past | the seeds | morning | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the seeds not said here | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | change | as usual | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | change not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | past · progressive | change's crop | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find | past | change | to change's astonishment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | expect | past · perfect · passive | a few stalks of barley not said here | change | a great looking man obj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme man=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 9 | stand | past · progressive | change not said here | the middle of the bed | instead a few stalks of barley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | |||
| 10 | astonish | change | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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