Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 1
Many years ago, in the kingdom of Nepal, there was a little Mouse, who lived with her husband in a snug nest not far from the King’s palace.
Who acts: little Mouse · What happens: be, live · To what, where: kingdom, snug nest
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Mouse), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Nepal | case |
| 9 | Nepal | Nepal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kingdom | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kingdom | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Mouse | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Mouse | amod |
| 15 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Mouse | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 nest | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nest | det |
| 24 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nest | amod |
| 25 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 lived | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 King | det |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 palace | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 King | case |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 far | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little Mouse | the kingdom of Nepal; there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | |||
| 2 | live | past | a little Mouse | a snug nest | with Mouse's husband; far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location |
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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