Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 74
“Never mind,” said she; “there is a large white stone lying at the foot of the staircase.
Who acts: hand, large white stone · What happens: not mind, say, be, lie · To what, where: foot · 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 (hand, large white stone), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stone | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 staircase | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 staircase | det |
| 22 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foot | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a large white stone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | gerund | a large white stone not said here | the foot of the staircase | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
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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