Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 24

When the Boy arrived, he was brought before the King, and the King told him that as he had been found trespassing in the royal forests, he intended to kill the mother, and to keep the Boy as a slave, unless the Boy could furnish him at once with four full-grown Tigers to guard the four gates of the palace, in which case he would marry the Boy to his daughter and would give him half his kingdom.

Who acts: Boy, King · What happens: arrive, bring, tell, find, trespass, intend · To what, where: Boy, King, royal forests, mother, four gates, case · 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 (Boy, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brought	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 found	mark
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 found	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	ccomp
24	trespassing	trespass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 found	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 forests	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forests	det
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 forests	amod
28	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 trespassing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 intended	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 intended	nsubj
31	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 kill	mark
33	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 intended	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mother	det
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kill	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 keep	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 keep	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 keep	mark
39	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 intended	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Boy	det
41	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 keep	obj
42	as	as	ADP	_	44 slave	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 slave	det
44	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keep	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 furnish	punct
46	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	50 furnish	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Boy	det
48	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 furnish	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 furnish	aux
50	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 keep	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 furnish	obj
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 once	case
53	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	50 furnish	obl
54	with	with	ADP	_	59 Tigers	case
55	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 Tigers	nummod
56	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 grown	amod
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 full	punct
58	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 Tigers	amod
59	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 furnish	obl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 guard	mark
61	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 furnish	advcl
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 gates	det
63	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	64 gates	nummod
64	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 guard	obj
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 palace	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 palace	det
67	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 gates	nmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 marry	punct
69	in	in	ADP	_	71 case	case
70	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	71 case	det
71	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 marry	obl
72	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 marry	nsubj
73	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 marry	aux
74	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 guard	conj
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 Boy	det
76	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 marry	obj
77	to	to	ADP	_	79 daughter	case
78	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 daughter	nmod:poss
79	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 marry	obl
80	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 give	cc
81	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	82 give	aux
82	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 guard	conj
83	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 give	iobj
84	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	86 kingdom	det:predet
85	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	86 kingdom	nmod:poss
86	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 give	obj
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the Boy						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past · passive		Boy			before the King		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	the King		Boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	find	past · perfect · passive		King					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
5	trespass	gerund	King not said here			the royal forests			tree rules
6	intend	past	King						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	the mother					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
8	keep	to-infinitive	King not said here	the Boy				as a slave	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
9	furnish a condition, not said to happen	could	the Boy		King			with four grown Tigers	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with tiger=Theme
10	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	guard	to-infinitive	the Boy not said here	the four gates of the palace					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary
12	marry	would	Boy	the Boy		which case		to Boy's daughter	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient
13	give	would	the Boy not said here	Boy's kingdom	King				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kingdom=Theme

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 24

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 24