--- title: “Well, then,” answered the Mouse, “all we wish you to do is to provi… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, then,” answered the Mouse, “all we wish you to do is to provide us by to-morrow evening with one hundred thousand sticks, each about a foot long, [8] and to have them laid in rows on the bank of the river. Who acts: Mouse, we, all, Mice. 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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 (Mouse, we, all, Mice), 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:pg75000:20:36 # text = “Well, then,” answered the Mouse, “all we wish you to do is to provide us by to-morrow evening with one hundred thousand sticks, each about a foot long, [8] and to have them laid in rows on the bank of the river. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nsubj:outer _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 provide provide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 compound _ _ 29 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 compound _ _ 30 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 appos _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 xcomp _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Mouse | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | we | | you | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all | | us | | evening | provide *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | Mice *= mouse* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lay** *in a quote* | participle | Mice *= mouse* *not said here* | | | rows on the bank of the river | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in row=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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/20/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/20/37/) - ↑ back to [The Country of the Mice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/20/)