Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 71
The Boy was greatly distressed on hearing this, for he did not think it possible that the little Mouse could compete successfully with the King’s great Elephant; so he went home very sadly and told his mother the whole story.
Who acts: Boy, little Mouse · What happens: distress, hear, not think, compete, go, tell · To what, where: Boy, this, slave, whole story, mother · 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, little 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 distressed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 distressed | advmod |
| 5 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 distressed | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 distressed | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | obj |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 compete | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mouse | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Mouse | amod |
| 20 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 compete | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 compete | aux |
| 22 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 possible | advcl |
| 23 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 22 compete | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Elephant | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Elephant | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Elephant | amod |
| 29 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 compete | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distressed | parataxis |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 sadly | advmod |
| 36 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 told | cc |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 told | iobj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 story | det |
| 42 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 story | amod |
| 43 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 told | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 distressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distress | past · passive | the Boy | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | Boy | slave | possible property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 4 | compete | could | the little Mouse | with the King's great Elephant; successfully property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elephant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Boy | home, sadly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | Boy not said here | the whole story | King's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient story=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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