Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 33
When the King saw them coming in together, he asked his Servant what he wanted, and why he was bringing in a strange Boy with him.
Who acts: King, Servants · What happens: see, come in, ask, want, bring · To what, where: Servants, Servant
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 (King, Servants), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Servant | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 wanted | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Servant | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bringing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bringing | cc |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 bringing | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bringing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bringing | aux |
| 22 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Boy | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Boy | det |
| 25 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Boy | amod |
| 26 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bringing | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bringing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | Servants = servant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in | gerund | Servants = servant not said here | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | King | King's Servant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | King | King's Servant | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · progressive | King | in a strange Boy; with Boy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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