Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 45
On hearing this, the King of the Mice salaamed profoundly to the King, and returned as fast as he could to his own subjects.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, salaam, return · To what, where: this, King
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 salaamed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 salaamed | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mice | det |
| 9 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 King | nmod |
| 10 | salaamed | salaam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 10 salaamed | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 salaamed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 returned | cc |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 salaamed | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 returned | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fast | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 subjects | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 subjects | amod |
| 26 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 could | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 salaamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the King of the Mice not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | salaam | past | the King of the Mice | the King | profoundly property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | return | past | the King of the Mice not said here | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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