Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 5
Mice,” said she, “I have called you together in order to say something to you.
Who acts: Mice, I · What happens: say, call · To what, where: you, something · 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 (Mice, I), 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 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mice | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mice | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 say | mark |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 in | fixed |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 say | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 say | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mice | Cat nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | present · perfect | I | you | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to you=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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