Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 78
As he came on, holding his trunk high in the air, the little Mouse jumped to the ground and ran to meet him.
Who acts: Boy, little Mouse · What happens: come on, hold, jump, run, meet · To what, where: trunk, Boy
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 jumped | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 holding | punct |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 holding | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 high | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mouse | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Mouse | amod |
| 16 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jumped | nsubj |
| 17 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jumped | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 jumped | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 meet | mark |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ran | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | Boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Boy not said here | Boy's trunk | high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme | |||
| 3 | jump | past | the little Mouse | to the ground result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ground=Result | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the little Mouse not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | the little Mouse not said here | Boy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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