Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 76
At one end of the enclosure the King’s great tusker stood ready, still chained by the leg; and the Boy, with the Mouse in his sleeve, took up his stand at the other end of the arena, face to face with the angry Elephant.
Who acts: great tusker, Boy · What happens: stand, chain, take up · To what, where: one end, stand, other end
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 (great tusker, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 end | nummod |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 enclosure | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 enclosure | det |
| 6 | enclosure | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tusker | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tusker | amod |
| 11 | tusker | tusker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chained | punct |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 chained | advmod |
| 16 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stood | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 leg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 leg | det |
| 19 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chained | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 took | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Boy | det |
| 23 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 took | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Mouse | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Mouse | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mouse | det |
| 27 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Boy | appos |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 sleeve | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Mouse | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Boy | punct |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 took | compound:prt |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 stand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 end | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 end | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 end | amod |
| 39 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 arena | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 arena | det |
| 42 | arena | arena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 end | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 face | punct |
| 44 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 end | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 face | case |
| 46 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 face | nmod |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 Elephant | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Elephant | det |
| 49 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 Elephant | amod |
| 50 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 took | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the King's great tusker | at one end of the enclosure | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | |||
| 2 | chain | participle | the King's great tusker not said here | still | by the leg | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | take up | past | the Boy | King's stand | at the other end of the arena and face to face | with the angry Elephant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stand=Theme at end=Asset |
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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