Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 16

The Boy promised to do so, and every day he used to sit and play about at the mouth of the nest.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: promise, do, use, sit, play about · To what, where: mouth

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Boy	det
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl:unmarked
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sit	mark
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 play	cc
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 play	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mouth	det
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 play	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 nest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nest	det
23	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mouth	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the Boy				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	past	Boy		day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sit	to-infinitive	Boy not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play about	infinitive	Boy not said here	the mouth of the nest		about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 16