Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 11
“Good-morning, Father,” said he, “Mother has sent me to find out where you are and how you are getting on.”
Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, send, find out, be, get on · To what, where: Mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise 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 (father, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 13 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | aux |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 find | compound:prt |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 find | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 where | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 where | cop |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 getting | cc |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 getting | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 getting | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 getting | aux |
| 27 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 where | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 getting | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Mother | me obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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