Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 60
So he fluttered back to the top of a high tree, and called the loud, shrill call of the Peacocks.
Who acts: Peacock · What happens: flutter back, call · To what, where: loud shrill call, Peacocks · 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 (Peacock), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fluttered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fluttered | nsubj |
| 3 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 fluttered | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fluttered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fluttered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 call | det |
| 16 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 call | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loud | punct |
| 18 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 call | amod |
| 19 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Peacocks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Peacocks | det |
| 22 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter back | past | Peacock | to the top of a high tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Peacock not said here | the loud shrill call of the Peacocks | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | the Peacocks | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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