Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 28
“Why,” said he, “what could the Mice do to help me in my present predicament?
Who acts: King, Mice · What happens: say, do, help · To what, where: King, present predicament · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mice | det |
| 12 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 do | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 predicament | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 predicament | nmod:poss |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 predicament | amod |
| 20 | predicament | predicament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | could | the Mice | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mice not said here | King | my present predicament | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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