Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 52
So in order to frighten the strange object he took off his puggaree and flung it at it.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: frighten, take off, fling · To what, where: strange object, puggaree, order
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 frighten | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 frighten | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 frighten | mark |
| 5 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 object | amod |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frighten | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frighten | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 puggaree | nmod:poss |
| 13 | puggaree | puggaree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flung | cc |
| 15 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flung | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | to-infinitive | the strange object | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus object=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | take off | past | Boy | Boy's puggaree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puggaree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | Boy not said here | puggaree | order | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at it=Destination |
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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