Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 4
So he dressed himself up in his best clothes and set off one morning to the King’s palace.
Who acts: King · What happens: dress up, set off · To what, where: King, best clothes, palace
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 dressed | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dressed | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 clothes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 clothes | amod |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 dressed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dressed | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 morning | nummod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | past | King | King | King's best clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | King not said here | the King's palace | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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