Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 28
On hearing this the Monkey became very much alarmed, and saw that he was being led into a trap.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: hear, become, alarm, see, lead · To what, where: this, Tortoise, trap · 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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 became | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Monkey | det |
| 5 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 alarmed | advmod |
| 9 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 led | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 led | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 led | aux:pass |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 led | aux:pass |
| 17 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 trap | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 trap | det |
| 20 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 led | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Monkey not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the Monkey | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | alarm | participle | the Monkey not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the Monkey not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lead | past · passive | Tortoise | a trap | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into trap=Destination |
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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