Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 15
Now it happened that amongst these Mice there were two friends, whose names were Rambé and Ambé, who were very much attached to one another.
Who acts: it, names, Rambé · What happens: happen, be, attach, name · To what, where: Rambé, one
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and 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 (it, names, Rambé), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 Mice | mark |
| 5 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 7 Mice | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 Mice | det |
| 7 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happened | obl |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Mice | acl:relcl |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 friends | nummod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rambé | punct |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 names | nmod:poss |
| 14 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Rambé | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Rambé | cop |
| 16 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Ambé | cc |
| 18 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rambé | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 attached | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 attached | obl |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 attached | aux:pass |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 attached | advmod |
| 24 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Rambé | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 attached | obl |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 one | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | amongst this Mice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst mouse=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Rambé and Ambé's names | Rambé and Ambé | Ambé conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | attach | past · passive | Rambé and Ambé | one | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: to one=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | Rambé and Ambé | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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