Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 8
Now this Sparrow, although the poor man did not know it, was really a fairy in disguise, and later on, when it had grown up, it flew out one day and returned with its beak full of grain.
Who acts: poor man, Sparrow, step · What happens: not know, be, grow up, fly out, return · To what, where: step, fairy, disguise
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, Sparrow, step), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Sparrow | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Sparrow | det |
| 3 | Sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fairy | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 5 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Sparrow | appos |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fairy | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 fairy | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fairy | det |
| 17 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 disguise | case |
| 19 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fairy | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 on | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 on | cc |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 on | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fairy | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grown | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 grown | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grown | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grown | aux |
| 28 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 fairy | parataxis |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 grown | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 flew | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 flew | nsubj |
| 32 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grown | parataxis |
| 33 | out | out | ADV | _ | 32 flew | advmod |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 day | nummod |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 returned | cc |
| 37 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 flew | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 beak | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 beak | nmod:poss |
| 40 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 returned | obl |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beak | amod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 grain | case |
| 43 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 full | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the poor man | step | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this Sparrow | a fairy | disguise | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow up | past · perfect | step | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fly out | past | step | day | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | return | past | step not said here | with step's beak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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