Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 17
So they laid their heads together and arranged a little plan for future processions.
Who acts: names · What happens: lay, arrange · To what, where: heads, little plan
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 (names), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arranged | cc |
| 8 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plan | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plan | amod |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arranged | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 processions | case |
| 13 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 processions | amod |
| 14 | processions | procession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plan | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | names = name | names's heads | together property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result | |||
| 2 | arrange | past | names = name not said here | a little plan | for future processions | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plan=Product for procession=Beneficiary |
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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