Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 24

“Never fear about that, Brother Monkey,” said the Tortoise; “I can arrange that quite simply.

Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: not fear, say, arrange · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fear	advmod
3	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fear	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Monkey	punct
7	Brother	brother	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Monkey	amod
8	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tortoise	det
13	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 arrange	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 arrange	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 arrange	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 arrange	aux
18	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 simply	mark
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 simply	advmod
21	simply	simply	ADV	_	18 arrange	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not fear in a quote	infinitive		about that; Brother Monkey conj	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the Tortoise		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	arrange in a quote	can	the Tortoise = tortoise		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 24