Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 68
The King was greatly astonished at what had happened, but he selected the four best Peacocks, and sent away the rest.
Who acts: King · What happens: astonish, happen, select, send away · To what, where: King, four best Peacocks, rest
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 happened | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 astonished | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 selected | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 selected | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 selected | nsubj |
| 13 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peacocks | det |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Peacocks | nummod |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Peacocks | amod |
| 17 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 selected | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 astonished | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rest | det |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past · passive | the King | greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | select | past | King | the four best Peacocks | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send away | participle | the rest | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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