Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 7
Shortly afterwards the Mouse was again with child, and this time she prayed that her offspring might be very beautiful.
Who acts: Mouse, offspring · What happens: be
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 (Mouse, offspring), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mouse | det |
| 4 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prayed | cop |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prayed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prayed | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prayed | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 prayed | nsubj |
| 14 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 offspring | nmod:poss |
| 17 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prayed | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mouse | time | pray property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | might | Mouse's offspring | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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