Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 65
The Peacocks placed the Boy upon the ground in front of the King’s throne, and arranged themselves in rows behind him, with their tails spread.
Who acts: Peacocks, tails · What happens: place, arrange, spread · To what, where: Boy, front, courtiers, rows
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 (Peacocks, tails), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Peacocks | det |
| 2 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Boy | det |
| 5 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arranged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arranged | cc |
| 18 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 arranged | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 rows | case |
| 21 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 arranged | obl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rows | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spread | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 spread | mark |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tails | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spread | nsubj |
| 28 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 arranged | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the Peacocks | the Boy | front of the King's throne | upon the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme upon ground=Destination | ||
| 2 | arrange | past | the Peacocks not said here | courtiers = courtier | rows behind Peacock | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in row=Destination | |||
| 3 | spread | present | courtiers's tails | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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