Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 9
The poor man was sitting in his house when the little Sparrow flew in and perched on the table in front of him.
Who acts: poor man, little Sparrow · What happens: sit, fly in, 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 (poor man, little Sparrow), 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 | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 flew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sparrow | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Sparrow | amod |
| 12 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 perched | cc |
| 16 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flew | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perched | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 table | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 front | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the poor man | fairy's house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly in | past | the little Sparrow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perch | participle | the little Sparrow not said here | the table in front of fairy | 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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