Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 40

On seeing this the Boy became very much excited, and began calling aloud to his Mother that a dog was making off with her purse.

Who acts: Boy, dog · What happens: see, become, begin, call, make off · To what, where: this, Mother · 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 (Boy, dog), 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 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 became	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 seeing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Boy	det
5	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 excited	advmod
9	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
13	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	xcomp
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	13 calling	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Mother	nmod:poss
17	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calling	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 making	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 making	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 making	aux
22	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 calling	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 making	compound:prt
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 purse	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 purse	nmod:poss
26	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 making	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the Boy not said here	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	become	past	the Boy			excited property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past	the Boy not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	call	gerund	the Boy not said here		Boy's Mother	aloud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
5	make off	past · progressive	a dog			with dog's purse	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 40