Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 85
And on the King’s death the Boy succeeded to the kingdom, and he and his mother lived happily ever afterwards.
Who acts: Boy, King · What happens: succeed, live, die · To what, where: death
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, King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 succeeded | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeded | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Boy | det |
| 8 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeded | nsubj |
| 9 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mother | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 he | conj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 succeeded | conj |
| 20 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 afterwards | advmod |
| 22 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | the Boy | the King's death | to the kingdom | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | Boy | ever | afterwards, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | die | the King | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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