Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 47
The King was very much astonished at this, and having selected four of the finest Tigers, he allowed the others to go away.
Who acts: King, others · What happens: be, have, select, allow, go away · To what, where: this, four, others
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 (King, others), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 astonished | advmod |
| 6 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 allowed | cc |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 allowed | advcl |
| 12 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 having | xcomp |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 selected | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Tigers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tigers | det |
| 16 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Tigers | amod |
| 17 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 four | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allowed | nsubj |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 astonished | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 others | det |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 allowed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | xcomp |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | this | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | select | participle | King not said here | four of the finest Tigers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme | ||||
| 4 | allow | past | King | the others | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer other=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the others not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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