Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 44
Her son, who was very fond of sugar, at once set to work to pick up all that he saw; and while he was so engaged, the good woman slipped away and soon found the dog and recovered her purse.
Who acts: son, Boy, good woman · What happens: be, set, work, pick up, see, engage · To what, where: Boy, dog, purse
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 (son, Boy, good woman), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fond | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fond | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fond | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 fond | advmod |
| 7 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sugar | case |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fond | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 set | advmod |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fond | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pick | mark |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 pick | compound:prt |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 saw | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pick | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 engaged | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 engaged | cc |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 engaged | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 engaged | aux:pass |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 engaged | advmod |
| 29 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fond | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slipped | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 woman | det |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 woman | amod |
| 33 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 slipped | nsubj |
| 34 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 engaged | parataxis |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 slipped | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 found | cc |
| 37 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 found | advmod |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 slipped | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 dog | det |
| 40 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 recovered | cc |
| 42 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | conj |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 purse | nmod:poss |
| 44 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 recovered | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog's son | of sugar; who nsubj; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | dog's son not said here | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | dog's son not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pick up | to-infinitive | dog's son not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | engage | past · passive | Boy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | slip away | past | the good woman | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | find | past | the good woman not said here | the dog | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | |||
| 9 | recover | past | the good woman not said here | dog's purse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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