Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 119
When evening approached, the Landlord and the Lady seated themselves in the supper room, waiting to see whether or no the cat would appear as expected, whilst the Husband hid himself in a corner of the courtyard, just outside the door near where the cat was accustomed to pass.
Who acts: evening, Landlord, cat, Husband · What happens: approach, seat, wait, see, appear, expect · To what, where: mice, supper room, Husband, corner, cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Landlord, cat, Husband), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 approached | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Landlord | det |
| 6 | Landlord | Landlord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Lady | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lady | det |
| 9 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Landlord | conj |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 seated | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waiting | punct |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seated | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 waiting | advcl |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 appear | mark |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 whether | fixed |
| 22 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 appear | discourse |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cat | det |
| 24 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appear | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 appear | aux |
| 26 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | ccomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 expected | advmod |
| 28 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 appear | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hid | punct |
| 30 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 33 hid | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Husband | det |
| 32 | Husband | Husband | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 hid | nsubj |
| 33 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 hid | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 corner | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 corner | det |
| 37 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hid | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 courtyard | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 courtyard | det |
| 40 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 corner | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 door | punct |
| 42 | just | just | ADV | _ | 45 door | advmod |
| 43 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 45 door | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 door | det |
| 45 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 corner | conj |
| 46 | near | near | ADP | _ | 51 accustomed | mark |
| 47 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 51 accustomed | advmod |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 cat | det |
| 49 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 accustomed | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 51 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 door | acl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 pass | mark |
| 53 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 accustomed | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | past | the Landlord and the Lady | mice = mouse | the supper room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in room=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the Landlord and the Lady not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Landlord and the Lady not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | appear | would | the cat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | expect | participle | the cat not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hide | past | the Husband | Husband | a corner of the courtyard and the door | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location | |||
| 8 | accustom | past · passive | the cat | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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