Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 26

The Mouse told him not to vex himself, and she gave him a handful of Tiger’s hair and sent him out into the jungle with full directions as to what he should do.

Who acts: Mouse, Boy · What happens: tell, not vex, give, send out, do · To what, where: Boy, handful, jungle · 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 (Mouse, 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	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 vex	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 vex	mark
7	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 vex	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handful	det
15	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 hair	case
17	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hair	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Tiger	case
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 handful	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	21 sent	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 jungle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jungle	det
26	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 directions	case
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 directions	amod
29	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sent	obl
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	32 what	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 sent	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 what	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Mouse		Boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not vex not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here	Boy				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	give	past	Mouse	a handful of Tiger's hair	Boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme
4	send out	past	the Mouse not said here	Boy		the jungle	with full directions; what obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	do	should	Boy					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 26

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 26