Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 55
Here he stopped to take breath, and he noticed to his great joy that the shadow had disappeared; but on peeping out from the shadow of the tree he was annoyed to find that on whichever side he looked the shadow immediately showed itself also.
Who acts: Boy, great joy, shadow · What happens: stop, take, notice, disappear, peep out, be · To what, where: breath, shadow, that, side, tree
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, great joy, shadow), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 noticed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 noticed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 noticed | nsubj |
| 10 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 joy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joy | amod |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noticed | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 disappeared | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shadow | det |
| 17 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 disappeared | aux |
| 19 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 joy | acl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 peeping | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 peeping | cc |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 23 peeping | mark |
| 23 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stopped | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 peeping | compound:prt |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 shadow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shadow | det |
| 27 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 peeping | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shadow | nmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 annoyed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 annoyed | cop |
| 33 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 peeping | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 annoyed | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 find | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 38 | whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 39 side | det |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 looked | nsubj |
| 41 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 side | acl:relcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 shadow | det |
| 43 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 showed | nsubj |
| 44 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 45 showed | advmod |
| 45 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 looked | ccomp |
| 46 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 showed | obj |
| 47 | also | also | ADV | _ | 45 showed | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Boy | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | breath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | Boy | to Boy's great joy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | Boy's great joy not said here | the shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | peep out | gerund | Boy not said here | from the shadow of the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from shadow=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Boy | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | that | whichever side | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 8 | look | past | Boy | whichever side not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | show | past | the shadow | shadow | immediately property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | |||
| 10 | joy | Boy | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | shadow | the tree | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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