Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 44
“Very well,” replied the King, “if you can succeed in averting the danger which now threatens us, I will undertake to do all that you ask of me in this respect.”
Who acts: King, you, danger · What happens: reply, succeed, avert, threaten, undertake, do · To what, where: danger, us, all, respect · 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, danger), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 succeed | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 succeed | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 succeed | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 succeed | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 succeed | aux |
| 14 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 averting | mark |
| 16 | averting | avert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 succeed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 danger | det |
| 18 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 averting | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 threatens | nsubj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 threatens | advmod |
| 21 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 danger | acl:relcl |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 threatens | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 undertake | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 undertake | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 undertake | aux |
| 26 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 succeed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 undertake | xcomp |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 do | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ask | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 ask | nsubj |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 all | acl:relcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 ask | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 respect | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 respect | det |
| 37 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ask | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the King | well property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | succeed a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | avert in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the danger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | threaten in a quote | present | the danger | us | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | undertake in a quote | future | the King = king | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | this respect | of the King = king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
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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