Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 66
“Here, oh King!” said the Boy, “are all the finest Peacocks I could find in the forest.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: say, be, find · To what, where: finest Peacocks, forest · 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 (Boy), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 King | discourse |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Boy | det |
| 10 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Peacocks | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Peacocks | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Peacocks | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 Peacocks | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peacocks | det |
| 16 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Peacocks | amod |
| 17 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Peacocks | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | all finest Peacocks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | could | the Boy = boy | all finest Peacocks not said here | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Topic |
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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