Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 48

But he still hankered after the jewels, and in a few days’ time he again summoned the Boy before him, and told him that unless he at once furnished four Peacocks to sit one on each of the four golden pinnacles of his palace roof, he should kill his mother and keep the Boy as a slave.

Who acts: King · What happens: hanker, summon, tell, furnish, sit, kill · To what, where: Boy, King, four Peacocks, one, each, mother · 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 (King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 hankered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hankered	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 hankered	advmod
4	hankered	hanker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 jewels	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jewels	det
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hankered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 summoned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 summoned	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 days	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 time	nmod:poss
14	’	's	PART	_	13 days	case
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 summoned	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 summoned	nsubj
17	again	again	ADV	_	18 summoned	advmod
18	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hankered	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Boy	det
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 summoned	obj
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 summoned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hankered	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 furnished	mark
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	32 furnished	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 furnished	nsubj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 furnished	obl
32	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 kill	advcl
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 Peacocks	nummod
34	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 furnished	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sit	mark
36	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 furnished	advcl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 sit	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 each	case
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 sit	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 pinnacles	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 pinnacles	det
42	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 pinnacles	nummod
43	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 pinnacles	amod
44	pinnacles	pinnacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 each	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 roof	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 roof	nmod:poss
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 roof	compound
48	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pinnacles	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 furnished	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 kill	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 kill	aux
52	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	ccomp
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 mother	nmod:poss
54	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 kill	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 keep	cc
56	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 kill	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Boy	det
58	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 keep	obj
59	as	as	ADP	_	61 slave	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 slave	det
61	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 keep	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hankered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hanker	past	King				after the jewels; still		vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot after jewel=Theme
2	summon	past	King		the Boy		before Boy; again; time		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	King not said here		King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	furnish a condition, not said to happen	participle	King	four Peacocks					vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Recipient
5	sit	to-infinitive	King not said here	one		each of the four golden pinnacles of King's palace roof			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on each=Location
6	kill	should	King	King's mother					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
7	keep	infinitive	King not said here	the Boy				as a slave	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 48

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 48