Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 25
The poor Boy went in great grief to Mother Mouse, and related to her the whole of his interview with the King.
Who acts: poor Boy, Boy · What happens: go, interview · To what, where: great grief
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 (poor Boy, 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 | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Boy | amod |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grief | amod |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Mouse | case |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mouse | compound |
| 10 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 related | cc |
| 13 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 related | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 whole | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 related | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 interview | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 interview | nmod:poss |
| 20 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whole | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 interview | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor Boy | great grief | to Mother Mouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouse=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | interview | Boy | with the King | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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