Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 5
But if at any time you want my help, all you need do is to go into yonder thicket, and throw a handful of my hair into the air, and call my name three times.”
Who acts: you, do, my · What happens: want, need, be, throw, call, help · To what, where: help, thicket, handful, air, name · 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 (you, do, my), 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 | _ | 13 need | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 want | mark |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 need | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod:poss |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 need | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 need | ccomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 thicket | case |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 20 thicket | advmod |
| 20 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throw | cc |
| 23 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 handful | det |
| 25 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throw | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hair | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hair | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 handful | nmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 air | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 air | det |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throw | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 call | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 call | cc |
| 34 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | parataxis |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 name | nmod:poss |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 call | obj |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 times | nummod |
| 38 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 call | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my help | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||
| 2 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | present | do | thicket | go property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | do not said here | a handful of my hair | into the air result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer handful=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 5 | call | infinitive | my name | time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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