Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 2
It happened one day that the Tortoise came out of the lake and went for a stroll amongst the trees which grew near the water.
Who acts: It, Tortoise, trees · What happens: happen, come out, go, grow · To what, where: lake, trees, water
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 (It, Tortoise, trees), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tortoise | det |
| 7 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 stroll | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stroll | det |
| 17 | stroll | stroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trees | acl:relcl |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the Tortoise | the lake | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lake=Result | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Tortoise not said here | the trees | for a stroll | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stroll=Theme amongst tree=Location | |||
| 4 | grow | past | the trees | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location |
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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