Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 118
So in accordance with the instructions she had given him, he caught three mice, and concealed them in a little box, which he placed in the bosom of his robe.
Who acts: bet, Husband, little box · What happens: give, catch, conceal, place, bosom · To what, where: instructions, Husband, three mice, accordance, mice, little box
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bet, Husband, little box), 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 | _ | 13 caught | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 accordance | case |
| 3 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 instructions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 instructions | det |
| 6 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accordance | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 instructions | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accordance | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 mice | nummod |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 caught | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 concealed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 concealed | cc |
| 18 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 concealed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 box | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 box | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 box | amod |
| 23 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 concealed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 placed | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 placed | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 placed | nsubj |
| 27 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 box | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bosom | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bosom | det |
| 30 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 placed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 robe | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 robe | nmod:poss |
| 33 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bosom | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | bet | the instructions not said here | Husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Husband | three mice | accordance with the instructions | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 3 | conceal | past | Husband not said here | mice = mouse | a little box | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in box=Location | |||
| 4 | place | past | a little box | the bosom of Husband's robe | Husband nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bosom=Destination | |||
| 5 | bosom | Husband's robe | nom bosom «state 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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