Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 18
This man, who was very clever at his work, was often employed in the King’s palace, and one day, as he was going to his work in the palace, he passed near to the Mouse’s nest.
Who acts: man, country · What happens: be, employ, go, pass, work · To what, where: work, man, palace, 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 (man, country), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clever | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 clever | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clever | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clever | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 employed | aux:pass |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 employed | advmod |
| 14 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 day | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 day | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 day | nummod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 going | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 going | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 employed | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 work | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 work | nmod:poss |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 going | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 going | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 passed | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 employed | conj |
| 38 | near | near | ADV | _ | 37 passed | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 nest | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Mouse | det |
| 41 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 nest | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Mouse | case |
| 43 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 passed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this man | country's work | clever property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | employ | past · passive | this man | the King's palace and one day | often property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | country | the palace | to country's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | pass | past | country | the Mouse's nest | near property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nest=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | work | country | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | work | country | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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