Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 73
As soon as she was ready the Boy placed her in the sleeve of his coat, and carried her along to the palace.
Who acts: Mouse, Boy · What happens: be, place, carry · To what, where: Mouse, sleeve, palace
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, Boy), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 placed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ready | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Boy | det |
| 8 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sleeve | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sleeve | det |
| 13 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 coat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 coat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sleeve | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mouse | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | past | the Boy | Mouse | the sleeve of Boy's coat | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sleeve=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry | past | the Boy not said here | Mouse | the palace | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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