Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 17
“As soon as I have got some eggs,” thought he to himself, “I shall set the hen to hatch them.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, think, set, hatch · To what, where: eggs, Boy, hen · 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 (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 eggs | det |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 thought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | aux |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hen | det |
| 22 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 hatch | mark |
| 24 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hatch | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | some eggs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Boy | Boy | soon property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | set in a quote | shall | I | the hen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hatch in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | eggs = egg | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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