Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 27
The Boy went off into the heart of a dense thicket in the jungle, and throwing the Tiger’s hair into the air, he called out at the same time:
Who acts: Boy · What happens: go off, throw, call out · To what, where: heart, hair, air
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), 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 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thicket | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thicket | det |
| 10 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thicket | amod |
| 11 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heart | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 jungle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jungle | det |
| 14 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thicket | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 throwing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 throwing | cc |
| 17 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Tiger | det |
| 19 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Tiger | case |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throwing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 called | nsubj |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 called | compound:prt |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the Boy | the heart of a dense thicket in the jungle | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | the Boy not said here | the Tiger's hair | into the air result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hair=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | Boy | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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