Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 81
She soon found herself inside the Elephant’s brain, and there she ran round and round, smearing poison all over the brain of the great beast.
Who acts: Mouse · What happens: find, run, smear · To what, where: Mouse, brain, poison
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 brain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Elephant | det |
| 7 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Elephant | case |
| 9 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 ran | expl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 round | cc |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 round | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smearing | punct |
| 19 | smearing | smear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 20 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smearing | obj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 brain | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 brain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brain | det |
| 24 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smearing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beast | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beast | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beast | amod |
| 28 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brain | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Mouse | Mouse | the Elephant's brain | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | ||
| 2 | run | past | Mouse | there | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | smear | gerund | Mouse not said here | poison | the brain of the great beast | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme over brain=Destination |
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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