Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 103

One day when the little boy was three years old, the very same parrot and maina, that had perched in the ship’s rigging, flew into the minister’s room and began talking to each other.

Who acts: little boy, One day · What happens: be, perch, fly, begin, talk · To what, where: same parrot, rigging, room

This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, One day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	nsubj
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 parrot	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 parrot	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 parrot	amod
15	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 maina	cc
17	maina	maina	X	Foreign=Yes	15 parrot	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 perched	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 perched	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 perched	aux
21	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 parrot	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 rigging	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ship	det
24	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rigging	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 ship	case
26	rigging	rigging	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 perched	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	into	into	ADP	_	33 room	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 minister	det
31	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 minister	case
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 began	cc
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flew	conj
36	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 began	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 each	case
38	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	36 talking	obl
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 each	fixed
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little boy			year	the same parrot obl; old property	tree rules
2	perch	past · perfect · passive		the same parrot	the ship's rigging			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in rigging=Destination
3	fly	past	One day				into the minister's room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
4	begin	past	One day not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	talk	gerund	One day not said here				to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-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 of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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🌲 Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 103

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Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 103