Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 63
So saying, four of the strongest Peacocks seized the Boy in their claws, and they all flew together over the tops of the trees to the King’s palace.
Who acts: four, directions · What happens: say, seize, fly · To what, where: Boy, claws, tops · 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 (four, directions), 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 | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 seized | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 four | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Peacocks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Peacocks | det |
| 7 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Peacocks | amod |
| 8 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 four | nmod |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Boy | det |
| 11 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 claws | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 claws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seized | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 flew | advmod |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | conj |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 tops | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tops | det |
| 23 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flew | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tops | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 King | case |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | four of the strongest Peacocks not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | four of the strongest Peacocks | the Boy | directions's claws | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | past | directions = direction | the tops of the trees | to the King's palace; together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=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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