Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 62
“Now,” said the first Peacock, “come along to the palace.”
Who acts: first Peacock · What happens: say, come along · To what, where: palace · 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 (first 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Peacock | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Peacock | amod |
| 8 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first Peacock | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come along in a quote | infinitive | the first Peacock not said here | the palace | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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