Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 15
To his amazement the room was absolutely bare, save for the portrait of a beautiful girl, that hung on one of the walls.
Who acts: room, you, beautiful girl, king · What happens: be, save, hang, amaze, portray · To what, where: amazement, beautiful girl
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 (room, you, beautiful girl, king), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 amazement | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bare | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bare | cop |
| 7 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 8 bare | advmod |
| 8 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amazement | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazement | punct |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 portrait | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 portrait | det |
| 13 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 portrait | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hung | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hung | nsubj |
| 20 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 girl | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hung | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 walls | det |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the room | king's amazement not said here | absolutely, bare property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | save | imperative | you not said here | to king's amazement; for the portrait of a beautiful girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for portrait=Source | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | a beautiful girl | on one of the walls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | ||||
| 4 | amaze | king | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | portray | a beautiful girl | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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