Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 42
As they approached the palace great consternation arose; servants ran hither and thither, and the guards were called to arms.
Who acts: directions, great consternation, servants · What happens: approach, arise, run, call · To what, where: palace, guards, arms · 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, great consternation, servants), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 approached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obj |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 consternation | amod |
| 7 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arose | nsubj |
| 8 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 palace | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 12 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thither | cc |
| 14 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 12 hither | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 called | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guards | det |
| 18 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ran | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 arms | case |
| 22 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | directions = direction | the palace | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | great consternation | the palace not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | servants | thither | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | call | past · passive | the guards | arms | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to arm=Recipient |
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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