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Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 21

Now it happened shortly after this that the King of the country went to war with a neighbouring kingdom, which lay on the opposite side of the river forming the frontier between the two countries.

Who acts: it, King, neighbouring kingdom, river · What happens: happen, go, neighbour, lie, form · To what, where: war, opposite side, frontier

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 (it, King, neighbouring kingdom, river), 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

advmodnsubjadvmodcaseoblmarkdetnsubjcasedetnmodadvclcaseoblcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodacldetobjcasedetnummodnmodpunctrootNowADVitPRONhappenedVERBshortlyADVafterADPthisPRONthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPNofADPtheDETcountryNOUNwentVERBtoADPwarNOUNwithADPaDETneighbouringVERBkingdomNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONlayVERBonADPtheDEToppositeADJsideNOUNofADPtheDETriverNOUNformingVERBtheDETfrontierNOUNbetweenADPtheDETtwoNUMcountriesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 happenedadvmod
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 happenednsubj
3happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4shortlyshortlyADV_3 happenedadvmod
5afterafterADP_6 thiscase
6thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 happenedobl
7thatthatSCONJ_13 wentmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Kingdet
9KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing13 wentnsubj
10ofofADP_12 countrycase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 countrydet
12countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing9 Kingnmod
13wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 happenedadvcl
14totoADP_15 warcase
15warwarNOUNNumber=Sing13 wentobl
16withwithADP_19 kingdomcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 kingdomdet
18neighbouringneighbourVERBVerbForm=Ger19 kingdomamod
19kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing13 wentobl
20,,PUNCT_22 laypunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 laynsubj
22laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 kingdomacl:relcl
23ononADP_26 sidecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 sidedet
25oppositeoppositeADJDegree=Pos26 sideamod
26sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing22 layobl
27ofofADP_29 rivercase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 riverdet
29riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing26 sidenmod
30formingformVERBVerbForm=Ger29 riveracl
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 frontierdet
32frontierfrontierNOUNNumber=Sing30 formingobj
33betweenbetweenADP_36 countriescase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 countriesdet
35twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card36 countriesnummod
36countriescountryNOUNNumber=Plur32 frontiernmod
37..PUNCT_3 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitafter this; nowshortly propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2gopastthe King of the countrywarwith a neighbouring kingdomvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
3neighbourgerundtree rules
4liepasta neighbouring kingdomthe opposite side of the rivervn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
5formgerundthe river not said herethe frontierbetween the two countriesvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frontier=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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