Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 44
The Boy rode in on the Tiger’s back to the royal presence, followed by all the other Tigers; and halting a few steps from the throne he said:
Who acts: Boy · What happens: ride, follow, halt, say · To what, where: royal presence, few steps, throne · 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 (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 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 rode | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Tiger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tiger | det |
| 7 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | obl |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 ’s | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 presence | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 presence | amod |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’s | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 presence | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Tigers | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Tigers | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tigers | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tigers | amod |
| 20 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 followed | obl:agent |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 halting | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 halting | cc |
| 23 | halting | halt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 steps | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 steps | amod |
| 26 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 halting | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 throne | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 throne | det |
| 29 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 steps | nmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 throne | acl:relcl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the Boy | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the royal presence not said here | all other Tigers obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | halt | gerund | the Boy not said here | a few steps | the throne | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector step=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Boy | the throne not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent throne=Topic |
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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