Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 70
So, a few days later, he sent for the Boy again, and he told him that unless his Mother Mouse could fight single-handed with the King’s state Elephant and destroy it, he would kill the mother and make the Boy a slave.
Who acts: King, Mother Mouse · What happens: send, tell, fight, hand, destroy, kill · To what, where: Boy, rest, mother, slave · 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 (King, Mother Mouse), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 sent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 sent | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 later | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Boy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Boy | det |
| 12 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 sent | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 fight | mark |
| 20 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 fight | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Mouse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Mouse | compound |
| 23 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fight | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fight | aux |
| 25 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | xcomp |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 handed | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 single | punct |
| 28 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fight | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Elephant | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 state | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 33 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Elephant | compound |
| 34 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 handed | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 destroy | cc |
| 36 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fight | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 destroy | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 kill | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 kill | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 kill | aux |
| 41 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | ccomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mother | det |
| 43 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kill | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 make | cc |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 kill | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Boy | det |
| 47 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 make | obj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 slave | det |
| 49 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 make | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | again | for the Boy; late property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | King | Boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fight a condition, not said to happen | could | King's Mother Mouse | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hand | participle | King's Mother Mouse not said here | with state Elephant | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | destroy | infinitive | King's Mother Mouse not said here | rest | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | kill | would | King | the mother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | infinitive | King not said here | a slave | the Boy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset boy=Beneficiary slave=Product |
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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