The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 5

Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey.

Who acts: Monkey, Fox, treasure · What happens: hurry, tell, find, not touch, belong · To what, where: Fox, rich treasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, Fox, treasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Monkey	case
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Monkey	compound
4	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hurrying	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hurrying	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 treasure	det
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 treasure	amod
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 touched	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 touched	nsubj:pass
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touched	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 touched	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 touched	advmod
20	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 treasure	acl:relcl
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 belonged	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 belonged	nsubj
23	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 touched	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 right	case
25	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 belonged	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 majesty	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 majesty	nmod:poss
28	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 right	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Monkey	det
30	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 majesty	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hurry	gerund	Monkey not said here			to King Monkey result	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to monkey=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Monkey		Fox		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	find	past · perfect	Fox	a rich treasure			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic
4	not touch	past · perfect · passive		a rich treasure			tree rules
5	belong	past	treasure			by right to Fox's majesty the Monkey	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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