Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 45
“Here, oh King! are a number of the best Tigers I could find in the forest.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: be, find · To what, where: number, forest
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 number | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 King | discourse |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | vocative |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 number | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tigers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tigers | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 Tigers | amod |
| 13 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 number | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a number | here | of the best Tigers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | could | Boy | a number not said here | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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