Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 40
“The two dangers to which I refer,” continued the Mouse, “are flood and Cats.
Who acts: King, two dangers · What happens: refer, continue, be · To what, where: Mouse, flood
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, two dangers), 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 | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dangers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dangers | nummod |
| 4 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 refer | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 refer | nsubj |
| 8 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 refer | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 refer | punct |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mouse | det |
| 13 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flood | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 flood | punct |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 flood | cop |
| 17 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Cats | cc |
| 19 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flood | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer in a quote | present | the King = king | to the two dangers | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the two dangers | the Mouse | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | flood and Cats | Cats conj | tree rules |
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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