Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 25

“I have come to you a second time, Oh King, in order to see whether I can be of any use to you.

Who acts: King · What happens: come, see, be · To what, where: King, you · 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 (King), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 King	punct
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 King	discourse
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 see	mark
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 in	fixed
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 use	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 use	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 use	cop
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 use	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 use	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	King	King	you	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	King not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	can	King		you		of any use	tree rules

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 25