Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 58

Brother Peacock,” said the Boy, “the King says that if I cannot at once provide him with four Peacocks to sit on the four golden pinnacles of his palace, he will kill our mother and make me a slave.”

Who acts: Brother Peacock, King, I · What happens: say, not provide, sit, kill, make · To what, where: Peacock, four golden pinnacles, mother, slave, me · 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 (Brother Peacock, King, I), 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	Brother	brother	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Peacock	amod
2	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Peacock	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peacock	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Boy	det
7	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 provide	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 provide	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 provide	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 provide	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 provide	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 provide	obl
20	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 provide	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 Peacocks	case
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 Peacocks	nummod
24	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 provide	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sit	mark
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Peacocks	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 pinnacles	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pinnacles	det
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 pinnacles	nummod
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pinnacles	amod
31	pinnacles	pinnacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sit	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 palace	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 palace	nmod:poss
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pinnacles	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kill	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kill	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 kill	aux
38	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sit	advcl
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mother	nmod:poss
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kill	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 make	cc
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 kill	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 make	obj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 slave	det
45	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 make	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Brother Peacock				the Boy nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not provide a condition, not said to happen	can	I		Peacock		with four Peacocks	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with peacock=Theme
4	sit	to-infinitive	I not said here			the four golden pinnacles of Peacock's palace		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pinnacle=Location
5	kill	future	King	our mother				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
6	make	infinitive	King not said here	a slave	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary slave=Product

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 58