Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 9
The Peacock soon grew into a large and beautiful bird, and when he had reached his full growth he one day said to his mother:
Who acts: Peacock · What happens: grow, reach, say · To what, where: full growth, mother · 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 (Peacock), 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 Peacock | det |
| 2 | Peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | advmod |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 large | conj |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | aux |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 grew | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 growth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 growth | amod |
| 19 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 day | nummod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 growth | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Peacock | into a large bird result; soon property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | Peacock | Peacock's full growth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent growth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peacock | Peacock's full growth not said here | Peacock's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent growth=Topic to mother=Recipient | |||
| 4 | grow | Peacock | nom growth «process 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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