Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 72

But the Mouse told him he was not to be alarmed, and she directed him to smear her body all over with poison, and to tie a long string to her tail.

Who acts: Mouse · What happens: tell, not alarm, direct, smear, tie · To what, where: King, body, long string · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mouse	det
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alarmed	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alarmed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 alarmed	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 alarmed	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 alarmed	aux:pass
11	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 directed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 directed	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 directed	nsubj
15	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 directed	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 smear	mark
18	smear	smear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 directed	xcomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 body	nmod:poss
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smear	obj
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 over	advmod
22	over	over	ADV	_	18 smear	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 poison	case
24	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smear	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tie	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tie	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tie	mark
28	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 string	det
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 string	amod
31	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tie	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 tail	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tail	nmod:poss
34	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tie	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Mouse		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not alarm not said to happen	past · passive		King			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	direct	past	Mouse	King			tree rules
4	smear	to-infinitive	Mouse not said here	Mouse's body		with poison; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with poison=Theme
5	tie	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here	a long string		to Mouse's tail	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient to tail=Co-Patient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 72