Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 2

Generally the Mice were very prosperous and had plenty to eat, but it happened one year that the crops of the country were very poor, and the Mice, who subsisted chiefly on the spare grains left after the harvest, found that their stores were running short before the end of the winter.

Who acts: Mice, it, crops, stores · What happens: be, have, eat, happen, subsist, leave · To what, where: plenty, spare grains, end

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 (Mice, it, crops, stores), 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	Generally	generally	ADV	_	6 prosperous	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mice	det
3	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prosperous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosperous	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 prosperous	advmod
6	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosperous	conj
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plenty	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 happened	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosperous	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 year	nummod
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happened	obl:unmarked
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 poor	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crops	det
20	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 poor	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crops	nmod
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 poor	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 poor	advmod
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 happened	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 found	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 found	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Mice	det
30	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 found	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 subsisted	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 subsisted	nsubj
33	subsisted	subsist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Mice	acl:relcl
34	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	33 subsisted	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 grains	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grains	det
37	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grains	amod
38	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 subsisted	obl
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 grains	acl
40	after	after	ADP	_	42 harvest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 harvest	det
42	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Mice	punct
44	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prosperous	parataxis
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 running	mark
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 stores	nmod:poss
47	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 running	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 running	aux
49	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 found	advcl
50	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 running	xcomp
51	before	before	ADP	_	53 end	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 end	det
53	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 running	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 winter	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 winter	det
56	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 end	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prosperous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mice			generally, prosperous property	tree rules
2	have	past	the Mice not said here	plenty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	the Mice not said here	plenty not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	happen	past	it		year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the crops of the country			poor property	tree rules
6	subsist	past	the Mice			on the spare grains; chiefly property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grain=Patient
7	leave	participle		the spare grains not said here	after the harvest		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	find	past	the Mice				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	run	past · progressive	Mice's stores		before the end of the winter	short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before end=Trajectory

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 2

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 2