Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 18

So she sent the boy back again to his father, with a message to say that Mrs. Tortoise was very ill, and that her physician had told her that the only thing to cure her was a Monkey’s heart.

Who acts: Mrs., only thing · What happens: send back, say, be, tell, cure · To what, where: boy, father, physician, Mrs., heart · 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 (Mrs., only thing), 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	_	3 sent	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 message	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 message	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 message	det
14	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 message	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 ill	mark
18	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ill	nsubj
19	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mrs.	flat
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ill	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 ill	advmod
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 told	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 physician	nmod:poss
27	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 heart	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thing	det
33	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thing	amod
34	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heart	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cure	mark
36	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thing	acl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cure	obj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 heart	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 Monkey	det
40	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heart	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Monkey	case
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send back	past	Mrs.	the boy	boy's father	again	with a message	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to father=Destination
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Mrs. not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Mrs.				ill property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Mrs.'s physician	Mrs.			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
5	cure	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here	Mrs.				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
6	is a	past	the only thing	a Monkey's heart			a Monkey nmod:poss	tree rules

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 18