Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 38

On hearing this ridiculous story the King was much amused, and laughed very heartily; and he gave the foolish Boy a piece of gold, and told him to go home to his Mother.

Who acts: King · What happens: hear, be, laugh, give, tell, go · To what, where: ridiculous story, piece, foolish Boy, Boy · 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 (King), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 amused	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 story	det
4	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amused	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 amused	advmod
10	amused	amused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amused	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 heartily	advmod
15	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 laughed	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Boy	det
21	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Boy	amod
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	xcomp
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 Mother	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Mother	nmod:poss
36	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		this ridiculous story		the King obj	tree rules
2	is	past				amused property	tree rules
3	laugh	past				heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	King	a piece of gold	the foolish Boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient piece=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past			Boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive				to Boy's Mother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 38

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 38