Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 22
The Monkey accepted his friend’s invitation, and the two set off together to the shores of the lake.
Who acts: Monkey, two, friend · What happens: accept, set off, invite · To what, where: invitation, shores
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 (Monkey, two, friend), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Monkey | det |
| 2 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 friend | case |
| 7 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accepted | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 shores | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shores | det |
| 17 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lake | det |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shores | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the Monkey | Tortoise's friend's invitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | the two | the shores of the lake | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | invite | Tortoise's friend | nom invitation «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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