Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 39
“I will gladly do what I can,” replied the King, “to safeguard you against these dangers if you will tell me how to proceed.”
Who acts: King, you · What happens: do, reply, safeguard, tell, proceed · To what, where: you, King · 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, you), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 can | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 safeguard | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 safeguard | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 safeguard | mark |
| 17 | safeguard | safeguard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 safeguard | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 dangers | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 dangers | det |
| 21 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 safeguard | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 tell | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 tell | aux |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 safeguard | advcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 proceed | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 proceed | mark |
| 29 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tell | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the King = king | what obj; gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | safeguard in a quote | to-infinitive | the King not said here | you | against this dangers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary against danger=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the King = king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | proceed not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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