Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 69
Presently, however, he inadvertently thrust his hand right into the vessel, and to his horror he found that he was unable to withdraw it again.
Who acts: feast · What happens: thrust, find, be, withdraw · To what, where: hand, vessel
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 (feast), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 thrust | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 thrust | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thrust | nsubj |
| 6 | inadvertently | inadvertently | ADV | _ | 7 thrust | advmod |
| 7 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrust | obj |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 vessel | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 vessel | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vessel | det |
| 13 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrust | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horror | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thrust | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 unable | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 unable | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 unable | cop |
| 24 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 found | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 withdraw | mark |
| 26 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 unable | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 withdraw | obj |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 withdraw | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | feast | feast's hand | the vessel | however, inadvertently, presently property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | past | feast | to feast's horror | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | feast | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | withdraw | to-infinitive | feast not said here | vessel | again | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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