Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 122
It reluctantly continued its way towards the house, and scarcely had it started to go on, when the Husband released a second mouse, which also scampered off right in front of the cat.
Who acts: courtyard, Husband · What happens: continue, have, start, go on, release, scamper off · To what, where: way, second mouse, front
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 (courtyard, Husband), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 started | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 released | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 released | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Husband | det |
| 21 | Husband | Husband | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 released | nsubj |
| 22 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mouse | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 mouse | amod |
| 25 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 released | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 scampered | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 scampered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 scampered | advmod |
| 29 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 scampered | compound:prt |
| 31 | right | right | ADV | _ | 33 front | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 front | case |
| 33 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scampered | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cat | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cat | det |
| 36 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 front | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | courtyard | courtyard's way | towards the house; reluctantly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | scarcely property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | start | past | courtyard | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go on | to-infinitive | courtyard not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | release | past | the Husband | a second mouse | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer mouse=Source | ||||
| 6 | scamper off | participle · passive | a second mouse | front of the cat | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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