Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 127
It dropped the lantern upon the threshold, bounded across the courtyard, and seized the mouse just as it was entering its hole.
Who acts: courtyard · What happens: drop, bound, seize, enter · To what, where: lantern, threshold, courtyard, mouse, hole
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), 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 | 2 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lantern | det |
| 4 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 threshold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 threshold | det |
| 7 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bounded | punct |
| 9 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 threshold | acl |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 courtyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtyard | det |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bounded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dropped | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mouse | det |
| 17 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 entering | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 entering | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 entering | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entering | aux |
| 22 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 seized | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hole | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entering | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | courtyard | the lantern | the threshold | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme upon threshold=Destination | |||
| 2 | bound | participle | the threshold not said here | the courtyard | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | courtyard not said here | the mouse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enter | past · progressive | courtyard | courtyard's hole | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination |
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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