Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 49

The Mice on a word of command from their King, scattered themselves without delay through the sleeping camp, and each one began to do as much destruction as he possibly could in the shortest possible space of time.

Who acts: Mice, one · What happens: scatter, begin, do, word · To what, where: Mice, sleeping camp, much destruction, command

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 (Mice, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mice	det
2	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 scattered	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 word	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mice	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 command	case
7	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 King	nmod:poss
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 command	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mice	punct
12	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 scattered	obj
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 delay	case
15	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scattered	obl
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 camp	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 camp	det
18	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 camp	compound
19	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scattered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 scattered	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 destruction	amod
29	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 do	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
32	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	33 could	advmod
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 space	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 space	det
36	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 space	amod
37	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 space	amod
38	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 could	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 time	case
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 space	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 scattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	past	the Mice on a word of command from Mice's King	Mice = mouse	the sleeping camp	without delay	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme through camp=Destination
2	begin	past	each one				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	to-infinitive	each one not said here	much destruction			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Eventuality
4	word			command from Mice's King			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 49