Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 125
Just as it was reaching the door of the house the third mouse was released.
Who acts: courtyard, house · What happens: reach, release · To what, where: door, third mouse
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, house), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 reaching | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 reaching | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reaching | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reaching | aux |
| 5 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaching | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 mouse | amod |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 released | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 released | aux:pass |
| 15 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 house | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · progressive | courtyard | the door of the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | release | past · passive | the house not said here | the third mouse | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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