Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 36
“Well, then,” answered the Mouse, “all we wish you to do is to provide us by to-morrow evening with one hundred thousand sticks, each about a foot long, [8] and to have them laid in rows on the bank of the river.
Who acts: Mouse, we, all, Mice · What happens: answer, wish, do, be, have, lay · To what, where: you, us, Mice, rows · 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 (Mouse, we, all, 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mouse | det |
| 9 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 provide | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 provide | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 provide | nsubj:outer |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | xcomp |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 provide | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 provide | mark |
| 20 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 provide | iobj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 evening | compound |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 provide | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sticks | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 thousand | compound |
| 30 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 sticks | nummod |
| 31 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 evening | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 each | punct |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 sticks | appos |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 foot | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 foot | det |
| 36 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 each | nmod |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 foot | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 8 | punct |
| 39 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 40 8 | punct |
| 40 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 foot | conj |
| 41 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 40 8 | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 have | cc |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 have | mark |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 provide | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 have | obj |
| 46 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 have | xcomp |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 rows | case |
| 48 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 laid | obl |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 bank | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bank | det |
| 51 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rows | nmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 river | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 river | det |
| 54 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bank | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Mouse | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | all | us | evening | provide property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | all not said here | Mice = mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lay in a quote | participle | Mice = mouse not said here | rows on the bank of the river | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in row=Destination |
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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