Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 18
So the King agreed to present the Mice with one of his great granaries full of barley, and he ordered his officers to throw open the doors, and to let the Mice carry away as much as they wanted.
Who acts: King, officers, Mice · What happens: agree, present, order, throw, open, let · To what, where: Mice, officers, doors, much
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 (King, officers, Mice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 present | mark |
| 6 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mice | det |
| 8 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 present | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 present | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 granaries | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 granaries | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 granaries | amod |
| 14 | granaries | granary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 granaries | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 barley | case |
| 17 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ordered | nsubj |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 officers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 throw | mark |
| 25 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 throw | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 doors | det |
| 28 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 open | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 let | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 let | mark |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Mice | det |
| 34 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 carry | nsubj |
| 35 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 let | parataxis |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 carry | obj |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 wanted | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 wanted | nsubj |
| 41 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 much | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the King | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the Mice | with one of King's great granaries | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient with one=Theme | |||
| 3 | order | past | King | King's officers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's officers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | open | infinitive | King's officers not said here | the doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | let | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | carry away | present | the Mice | much | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 8 | want | past | Mice = mouse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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