--- title: So, a few days later, he sent for the Boy again, and he told him tha… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So, a few days later, he sent for the Boy again, and he told him that unless his Mother Mouse could fight single-handed with the King’s state Elephant and destroy it, he would kill the mother and make the Boy a slave. Who acts: King, Mother Mouse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Mother Mouse), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:13:70 # text = So, a few days later, he sent for the Boy again, and he told him that unless his Mother Mouse could fight single-handed with the King’s state Elephant and destroy it, he would kill the mother and make the Boy a slave. 1 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 26 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | King | | | | again | for the Boy; late *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King | | Boy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **fight** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | King's Mother Mouse | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hand** | participle | King's Mother Mouse *not said here* | | | | | with state Elephant | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **destroy** | infinitive | King's Mother Mouse *not said here* | rest | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **kill** | would | King | the mother | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | | 7 | **make** | infinitive | King *not said here* | a slave | the Boy | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset boy=Beneficiary slave=Product | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/71/) - ↑ back to [The Mouse’s Three Children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/)