Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 34
The King was a good deal struck by this remark of the Mouse, and he replied:
Who acts: King · What happens: be, strike, reply, remark · To what, where: good deal, Mouse
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 | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 deal | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 remark | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 remark | det |
| 10 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Mouse | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mouse | det |
| 13 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remark | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the King | a good deal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | participle | a good deal not said here | by this remark of the Mouse | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by remark=Location | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | King | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remark | the Mouse | nom remark «communication 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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