Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 27
The King, in spite of his grief, was much amused on hearing these words from the Mouse.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, hear, spite · To what, where: words, grief
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 amused | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spite | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spite | case |
| 5 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 grief | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spite | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amused | cop |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 amused | advmod |
| 12 | amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 hearing | mark |
| 14 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 amused | advcl |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 words | det |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hearing | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Mouse | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mouse | det |
| 19 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | amused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the King not said here | this words | from the Mouse | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from mouse=Source | |||
| 3 | spite | King's grief | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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