Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 23

When the Monkey understood that it would be necessary for him to enter the lake, he became rather alarmed, and remarked to the Tortoise that never having been in the water, he was afraid it would be difficult for him to reach the Tortoise’s home.

Who acts: Monkey, Tortoise · What happens: understand, be, enter, become, alarm, remark · To what, where: lake, Tortoise, water, home · 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 (Monkey, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 understood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Monkey	det
3	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understood	nsubj
4	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 necessary	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 necessary	expl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 necessary	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	cop
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 understood	ccomp
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 enter	mark
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 enter	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 enter	mark
13	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enter	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understood	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 alarmed	advmod
20	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 became	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remarked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 remarked	cc
23	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 became	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 Tortoise	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Tortoise	det
26	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remarked	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 water	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 water	advmod
29	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 water	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 water	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Tortoise	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 water	acl:relcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 difficult	expl
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 difficult	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 difficult	cop
41	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 afraid	ccomp
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 reach	mark
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 reach	nsubj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 reach	mark
45	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 difficult	csubj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Tortoise	det
47	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 home	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 Tortoise	case
49	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 reach	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the Monkey					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would					necessary property	tree rules
3	enter	to-infinitive	Tortoise	the lake				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination
4	become	past	Tortoise					tree rules
5	alarm	participle	Tortoise not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	remark speech: assert	participle	Tortoise not said here		the Tortoise			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to tortoise=Recipient
7	not is	gerund · perfect	the Tortoise			the water		tree rules
8	is	past	Tortoise	the water not said here			afraid property	tree rules
9	is	would	Tortoise not said here				difficult property	tree rules
10	reach	to-infinitive	Tortoise	the Tortoise's home				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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 23

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 23