Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 81
The Boy, not knowing what it was, lay down upon this and fell fast asleep, and soon smeared himself all over with honey.
Who acts: Boy, honeycomb · What happens: not know, be, lay down, fall, smear · To what, where: Boy, this · 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 (Boy, honeycomb), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Boy | acl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 knowing | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 what | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boy | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | advcl |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | advmod |
| 17 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 smeared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 smeared | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 smeared | advmod |
| 21 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 smeared | obj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 over | advmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 smeared | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 honey | case |
| 26 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smeared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the Boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | honeycomb | the Boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | the Boy | this | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon this=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | the Boy not said here | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smear | past | the Boy not said here | Boy | with honey; over, soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with honey=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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