Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 19

There he saw the Boy seated on the ground, and, going up to him, he asked him whether he would like his hair cut and his nails pared.

Who acts: country, Boy, nails · What happens: see, seat, go up, ask, like, cut · To what, where: ground, country, Boy, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (country, Boy, nails), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Boy	det
5	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seated	nsubj
6	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 like	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 asked	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	obj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 like	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pared	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nails	nmod:poss
30	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pared	nsubj
31	pared	pare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	country			there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	seat	past	the Boy			the ground	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	go up	gerund	country not said here		country		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	past	country		Boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	like	would	country	country's hair			tree rules
6	cut not said to happen	participle	country not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	pare	past	country's nails				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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 19

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 19