Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 23
And so they went on calling and answering one another until they had all filed past the Cat, who had not dared to touch Ambé as long as his brother kept calling to him.
Who acts: others, brother · What happens: go, call, answer, file, not dare, not touch · To what, where: one, others, Cat, Ambé, Brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others, brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 calling | mark |
| 6 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answering | cc |
| 8 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 calling | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 answering | obj |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | fixed |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 filed | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filed | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 filed | advmod |
| 15 | filed | file | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 answering | advcl |
| 16 | past | past | ADP | _ | 18 Cat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cat | det |
| 18 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dared | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dared | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dared | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 dared | advmod |
| 23 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Cat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 touch | mark |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dared | xcomp |
| 26 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 touch | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 touch | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 kept | mark |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 long | advcl |
| 33 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 kept | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 calling | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | others = other | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | others = other not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | gerund | others = other not said here | one | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | file | past · perfect · passive | others = other | past the Cat; all property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not dare | past · perfect · passive | the Cat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not touch | to-infinitive | Ambé | long property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ambé=Co-Theme | ||||
| 7 | keep | past | Ambé's brother | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | call | gerund | Ambé's brother not said here | Brother | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=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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