Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 17
“Leave it to me,” said the Mouse; “if you will give us the grain we will undertake to carry it off.”
Who acts: Mouse, you, we · What happens: leave, say, give, undertake, carry off · To what, where: thread, Mouse, grain, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, you, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mouse | det |
| 10 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 undertake | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 undertake | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 undertake | advcl |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grain | det |
| 19 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 undertake | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 undertake | aux |
| 22 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 undertake | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 carry | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 undertake | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | infinitive | thread | the Mouse = mouse | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the grain | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient grain=Theme | |||
| 4 | undertake in a quote | future | we | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | carry off in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | thread | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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