Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 8
When the child was born, instead of a young Mouse, she found that she had given birth to a Peacock.
Who acts: child · What happens: bear, find, give · To what, where: child, birth, Peacock · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (child), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 born | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mouse | punct |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 Mouse | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Mouse | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mouse | amod |
| 11 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 given | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 given | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 found | ccomp |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Peacock | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Peacock | det |
| 22 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the child | a young Mouse parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | past | child | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | child | birth | a Peacock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to peacock=Recipient |
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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