Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 15

So the young Tortoise went back to his mother and told her what had happened.

Who acts: young Tortoise · What happens: go back, tell, happen · 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 (young Tortoise), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tortoise	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tortoise	amod
4	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mother	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happened	aux
15	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the young Tortoise		to Tortoise's mother result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	the young Tortoise not said here	Mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect			what nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 15