Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 75
While they are asleep, a snake that lives in the roof of the bridal chamber will drop poison from his fangs on to the princess’ cheek.
Who acts: parrot, snake · What happens: be, live, drop · To what, where: roof, poison, fangs
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 (parrot, snake), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 asleep | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drop | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drop | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snake | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roof | det |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chamber | det |
| 15 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chamber | amod |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roof | nmod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 drop | aux |
| 18 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drop | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 fangs | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fangs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drop | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 princess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fangs | nmod |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 princess | punct |
| 28 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 princess | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | parrot | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | a snake | the roof of the bridal chamber | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location | ||||
| 3 | drop | future | a snake | poison | snake's fangs on the princess and cheek | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from fang=Destination |
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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