Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 77
At a given signal the Elephant’s chain was loosed, and with a bellow of rage he rushed towards where the Boy was standing.
Who acts: Elephant, Boy, rage · What happens: give, loose, rush, stand, bellow · To what, where: chain, given signal
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 (Elephant, Boy, rage), 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 | _ | 4 signal | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 signal | amod |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loosed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Elephant | det |
| 6 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 chain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Elephant | case |
| 8 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loosed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loosed | aux:pass |
| 10 | loosed | loose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rushed | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bellow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bellow | det |
| 15 | bellow | bellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rage | case |
| 17 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bellow | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rushed | nsubj |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loosed | parataxis |
| 20 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 25 standing | mark |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 standing | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Boy | det |
| 23 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 standing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 standing | aux |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 rushed | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | loose | past · passive | the Elephant's chain | a given signal | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | Elephant | with a bellow of rage | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with bellow=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | the Boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bellow | rage | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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