Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 17
“It is quite time,” thought she, “that he should return to his wife and family, instead of amusing himself with a vulgar Monkey in the forest.”
Who acts: conduct, husband · What happens: be, think, return · To what, where: time, Mrs. · 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 (conduct, husband), 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 | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 time | advmod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 return | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 return | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 return | aux |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 family | cc |
| 20 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 amusing | punct |
| 22 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 amusing | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 instead | fixed |
| 24 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 return | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 amusing | nsubj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Monkey | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Monkey | det |
| 28 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Monkey | amod |
| 29 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 amusing | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Monkey | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | conduct | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Mrs. | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | should | husband | to husband's wife and family result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result |
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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