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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 23

The King, who was a greedy and unscrupulous man, determined to gain possession of so valuable a Boy, so he sent out some of his servants to bring the Boy up to the palace.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, gain, send out, bring up, possess · To what, where: greedy man, possession, servants, Boy, valuable Boy

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 (King), 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

detnsubjpunctnsubjcopdetamodccconjacl:relclpunctconjmarkxcompobjcaseadvmodamoddetnmodpunctadvmodnsubjcompound:prtdetcasenmod:possobjmarkadvcldetobjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETKingPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXaDETgreedyADJandCCONJunscrupulousADJmanNOUN,PUNCTdeterminedADJtoPARTgainVERBpossessionNOUNofADPsoADVvaluableADJaDETBoyPROPN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONsentVERBoutADPsomeDETofADPhisPRONservantsNOUNtoPARTbringVERBtheDETBoyPROPNupADPtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Kingdet
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 sentnsubj
3,,PUNCT_10 manpunct
4whowhoPRONPronType=Rel10 mannsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 mancop
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 mandet
7greedygreedyADJDegree=Pos10 manamod
8andandCCONJ_9 unscrupulouscc
9unscrupulousunscrupulousADJDegree=Pos7 greedyconj
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing2 Kingacl:relcl
11,,PUNCT_12 determinedpunct
12determineddeterminedADJDegree=Pos10 manconj
13totoPART_14 gainmark
14gaingainVERBVerbForm=Inf12 determinedxcomp
15possessionpossessionNOUNNumber=Sing14 gainobj
16ofofADP_20 Boycase
17sosoADV_18 valuableadvmod
18valuablevaluableADJDegree=Pos20 Boyamod
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 Boydet
20BoyBoyPROPNNumber=Sing15 possessionnmod
21,,PUNCT_24 sentpunct
22sosoADV_24 sentadvmod
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 sentnsubj
24sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25outoutADP_24 sentcompound:prt
26somesomeDETPronType=Ind29 servantsdet
27ofofADP_29 servantscase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 servantsnmod:poss
29servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur24 sentobj
30totoPART_31 bringmark
31bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf24 sentadvcl
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 Boydet
33BoyBoyPROPNNumber=Sing31 bringobj
34upupADP_31 bringcompound:prt
35totoADP_37 palacecase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 palacedet
37palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing31 bringobl
38..PUNCT_24 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthe Kinga greedy mantree rules
2bethe King not said heretree rules
3gainto-infinitivethe King not said herepossession of a valuable Boyvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
4send outpastthe KingBoy's servantsvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
5bring upto-infinitivethe King not said herethe Boyto the palacevn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
6possessa valuable Boynom possession «act transitive»: of=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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