Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 49
The poor Boy was very down-hearted on hearing this, and went sadly back to his mother with the news; but the little Mouse told him that it was all right, and giving him a handful of Peacock’s feathers, she instructed him how to proceed.
Who acts: poor Boy, little Mouse, news, Mouse · What happens: be, hear, go, tell, give, instruct · To what, where: this, Boy, handful · 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 (poor Boy, little Mouse, news, Mouse), 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 | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Boy | amod |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hearted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearted | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 hearted | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 down | punct |
| 8 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 hearing | mark |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hearted | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hearing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearted | conj |
| 15 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 16 back | advmod |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mother | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 news | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 news | det |
| 22 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mother | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mouse | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mouse | amod |
| 27 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 told | nsubj |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hearted | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | iobj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 right | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 right | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 right | cop |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 right | advmod |
| 34 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 told | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 giving | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 giving | cc |
| 37 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 told | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 giving | iobj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 handful | det |
| 40 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 giving | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 feathers | case |
| 42 | Peacock | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 Peacock | case |
| 44 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 handful | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 instructed | punct |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 instructed | nsubj |
| 47 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 instructed | obj |
| 49 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 51 proceed | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 proceed | mark |
| 51 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 instructed | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor Boy | down, hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the poor Boy not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the poor Boy not said here | to Boy's mother with the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the little Mouse | Boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | news | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | give | gerund | the little Mouse not said here | a handful of Peacock's feathers | Boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme | |||
| 7 | instruct speech: other | past | Mouse | Boy | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | proceed | to-infinitive | Mouse not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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