Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Folk tales from Tibet / The Mouse’s Three Children. / 5

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

ccmarkcasedetoblnsubjadvclnmod:possobjpunctadvmodnsubjnsubjcopmarkccompcaseadvmodoblpunctccconjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodcasedetoblpunctccparataxisnmod:possobjnummodobl:unmarkedpunctpunctrootButCCONJifSCONJatADPanyDETtimeNOUNyouPRONwantVERBmyPRONhelpNOUN,PUNCTallDETyouPRONneedVERBdoNOUNisAUXtoPARTgoVERBintoADPyonderADVthicketNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthrowVERBaDEThandfulNOUNofADPmyPRONhairNOUNintoADPtheDETairNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcallVERBmyPRONnameNOUNthreeNUMtimesNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_13 needcc
2ififSCONJ_7 wantmark
3atatADP_5 timecase
4anyanyDETPronType=Ind5 timedet
5timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing7 wantobl
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 wantnsubj
7wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 needadvcl
8mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 helpnmod:poss
9helphelpNOUNNumber=Sing7 wantobj
10,,PUNCT_7 wantpunct
11allallDETPronType=Tot13 needadvmod
12youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs13 neednsubj
13needneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
14dodoNOUNNumber=Sing17 gonsubj
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 gocop
16totoPART_17 gomark
17gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf13 needccomp
18intointoADP_20 thicketcase
19yonderyonderADV_20 thicketadvmod
20thicketthicketNOUNNumber=Sing17 goobl
21,,PUNCT_23 throwpunct
22andandCCONJ_23 throwcc
23throwthrowVERBVerbForm=Inf17 goconj
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 handfuldet
25handfulhandfulNOUNNumber=Sing23 throwobj
26ofofADP_28 haircase
27mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 hairnmod:poss
28hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing25 handfulnmod
29intointoADP_31 aircase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 airdet
31airairNOUNNumber=Sing23 throwobl
32,,PUNCT_34 callpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 callcc
34callcallVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin17 goparataxis
35mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 namenmod:poss
36namenameNOUNNumber=Sing34 callobj
37threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card38 timesnummod
38timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur34 callobl:unmarked
39..PUNCT_13 needpunct
40”"PUNCT_13 needpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1want a condition, not said to happenpresentyoumy helptimevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
2needpresentyouvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3is not said to happenpresentdothicketgo propertytree rules
4throwinfinitivedo not said herea handful of my hairinto the air resultvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer handful=Theme into air=Result
5callinfinitivemy nametimevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
6helpmynom help «act transitive»: poss=agent
7namemynom 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/5/