Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 41
When they were all ready, the first Tiger told his brother to mount upon his back, and so, with the Boy leading the way, and the other Tigers following in procession, they all went off in a body to the King’s palace.
Who acts: directions, first Tiger, Boy, other Tigers · What happens: be, tell, mount, lead, follow, go off · To what, where: brother, back, way, procession, other Tigers, body · 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 (directions, first Tiger, Boy, other Tigers), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tiger | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 Tiger | amod |
| 9 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mount | mark |
| 14 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mount | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 so | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 so | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 told | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Boy | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Boy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Boy | det |
| 24 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 so | vocative |
| 25 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Boy | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leading | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Tigers | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Tigers | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Tigers | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Tigers | amod |
| 32 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 so | conj |
| 33 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 Tigers | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 procession | case |
| 35 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 following | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 went | nsubj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 went | advmod |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Tigers | acl:relcl |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 went | compound:prt |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 body | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 body | det |
| 43 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 palace | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 King | det |
| 46 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 palace | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 King | case |
| 48 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | directions = direction | all, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the first Tiger | Tiger's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mount not said to happen | to-infinitive | the first Tiger not said here | Tiger's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon back=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | the Boy not said here | the way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | the other Tigers not said here | procession | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in procession=Location | ||||
| 6 | go off | past | directions = direction | the other Tigers not said here | a body | to the King's palace | tree rules |
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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