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Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 64

When the courtiers saw the Peacocks coming, they ran to tell the King, and the King seated himself upon his throne in the courtyard all ready to receive them.

Who acts: courtiers, Peacocks, King · What happens: see, come, run, tell, seat, receive · To what, where: Peacocks, King, Peacock, courtiers · 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 (courtiers, Peacocks, King), 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

advmoddetnsubjadvcldetobjaclpunctnsubjmarkxcompdetobjpunctccdetnsubjconjobjcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmodadvmodamodmarkxcompobjpunctrootWhenADVtheDETcourtiersNOUNsawVERBtheDETPeacocksNOUNcomingVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONranVERBtoPARTtellVERBtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETKingPROPNseatedVERBhimselfPRONuponADPhisPRONthroneNOUNinADPtheDETcourtyardNOUNallDETreadyADJtoPARTreceiveVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 sawadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 courtiersdet
3courtierscourtierNOUNNumber=Plur4 sawnsubj
4sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 ranadvcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Peacocksdet
6PeacockspeacockNOUNNumber=Plur4 sawobj
7comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger6 Peacocksacl
8,,PUNCT_4 sawpunct
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 rannsubj
10ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11totoPART_12 tellmark
12telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf10 ranxcomp
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Kingdet
14KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing12 tellobj
15,,PUNCT_19 seatedpunct
16andandCCONJ_19 seatedcc
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Kingdet
18KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 seatednsubj
19seatedseatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 ranconj
20himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes19 seatedobj
21uponuponADP_23 thronecase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 thronenmod:poss
23thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing19 seatedobl
24ininADP_26 courtyardcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 courtyarddet
26courtyardcourtyardNOUNNumber=Sing23 thronenmod
27allallDETPronType=Tot28 readyadvmod
28readyreadyADJDegree=Pos26 courtyardamod
29totoPART_30 receivemark
30receivereceiveVERBVerbForm=Inf28 readyxcomp
31themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 receiveobj
32..PUNCT_10 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe courtiersthe Peacocksvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peacock=Stimulus
2comegerundthe Peacocks not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3runpastcourtiers = courtiervn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4tell speech: assertto-infinitivecourtiers = courtier not said herethe Kingvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5seatpastthe KingPeacockupon Peacock's throne in the courtyardvn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
6receiveto-infinitivethe King not said herecourtiers = courtiervn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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