Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 54

Tse-ring looked round to see his Son, but could not detect him anywhere, but to his surprise he noticed a Monkey seated on one of the benches.

Who acts: Tse ring, father · What happens: look round, see, not detect, notice, seat, surprise · To what, where: Son, Monkey

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 (Tse ring, father), 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	Tse	Tse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ring	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Tse	punct
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Son	nmod:poss
9	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 detect	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 detect	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 detect	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 detect	advmod
14	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 detect	obj
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 detect	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 surprise	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 surprise	nmod:poss
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noticed	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 noticed	nsubj
23	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Monkey	det
25	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noticed	obj
26	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 Monkey	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 seated	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 benches	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 benches	det
31	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look round	past	Tse ring		round property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Tse ring not said here	father's Son		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	not detect	could	Tse ring not said here	Son	anywhere property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	notice	past	father	a Monkey	to father's surprise	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
5	seat	participle		a Monkey not said here	on one of the benches	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
6	surprise		father			nom surprise «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 54

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 54