Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 79
The Elephant caught sight of this small object, and stopped for a moment to see what it was, and the Mouse hopped on to his foot.
Who acts: Elephant, Mouse · What happens: catch, stop, see, hop on, sight · To what, where: sight, foot, small object
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Elephant | det |
| 2 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 object | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 object | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 object | amod |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hopped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hopped | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Mouse | det |
| 23 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hopped | nsubj |
| 24 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hopped | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 foot | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 foot | nmod:poss |
| 28 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hopped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the Elephant | sight of this small object | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the Elephant not said here | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Elephant not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hop on | past | the Mouse | Elephant's foot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sight | this small object | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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