Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 80
The Elephant at once put down his trunk to feel what was there, and in a twinkling the Mouse jumped into the open end of the trunk, and scuttled up it as fast as she could till she reached the head.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: put down, feel, be, twinkle, jump, scuttle up · To what, where: Elephant, open end, trunk, head
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 (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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 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 | 5 put | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 feel | mark |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 feel | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 a | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 a | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 put | conj |
| 18 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 a | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Mouse | det |
| 20 | Mouse | Mouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 twinkling | ccomp |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trunk | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trunk | det |
| 28 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 scuttled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scuttled | cc |
| 31 | scuttled | scuttle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 jumped | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 scuttled | compound:prt |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 scuttled | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 fast | advmod |
| 35 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 scuttled | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 could | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 could | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fast | advcl |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 reached | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 reached | nsubj |
| 41 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 scuttled | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 head | det |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reached | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | participle · passive | the Elephant | Elephant's trunk obj; once property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset trunk=Goal | ||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | what nsubj; there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | twinkle | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | jump | past | the Mouse | into the open end of the trunk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into end=Result | ||||
| 6 | scuttle up | participle | the Mouse not said here | trunk | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | |||
| 7 | reach | past | Mouse | the head | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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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