Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 82
Later in the night he woke up feeling very cold, and creeping into a shed close by, which was used as a storage for wool, he lay down upon the wool and slept until morning.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: wake up, feel, creep, shed, use, lie down · To what, where: wool
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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 woke | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 woke | nsubj |
| 6 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 woke | compound:prt |
| 8 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 woke | xcomp |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 cold | advmod |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feeling | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 creeping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 creeping | cc |
| 13 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 feeling | conj |
| 14 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 16 shed | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shed | det |
| 16 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 creeping | xcomp |
| 17 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 shed | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 shed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 used | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shed | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 storage | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 storage | det |
| 25 | storage | storage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 wool | case |
| 27 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 storage | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lay | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | parataxis |
| 31 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 lay | advmod |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 wool | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wool | det |
| 34 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lay | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 slept | cc |
| 36 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lay | conj |
| 37 | until | until | ADP | _ | 38 morning | case |
| 38 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 slept | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Boy | night | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Boy not said here | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | Boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shed | participle | Boy not said here | close property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 5 | use | past · passive | as a storage for wool; which nsubj:pass | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as storage=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | lie down | past | Boy | the wool | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon wool=Location | |||
| 7 | sleep | past | Boy not said here | morning | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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