Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 3
After walking for some distance he became hungry, and looking up into a cocoanut-tree, near which he found himself, he thought how much he should like to get one of the cocoanuts which were growing near the top.
Who acts: Tortoise, cocoanuts · What happens: walk, become, look up, find, think, like · To what, where: distance, Tortoise, much, one, top · 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, cocoanuts), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 thought | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 distance | det |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looking | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walking | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 looking | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cocoanut | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 found | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | parataxis |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 like | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 like | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | aux |
| 31 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 like | xcomp |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 get | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 cocoanuts | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cocoanuts | det |
| 37 | cocoanuts | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 growing | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 growing | aux |
| 40 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 cocoanuts | acl:relcl |
| 41 | near | near | ADP | _ | 43 top | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 top | det |
| 43 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 growing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | Tortoise not said here | for some distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Tortoise | some distance not said here | hungry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient distance=Result | |||
| 3 | look up | gerund | Tortoise not said here | into a cocoanut tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Tortoise | Tortoise | which obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Tortoise | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | like | should | Tortoise | much | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tortoise not said here | one of the cocoanuts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | grow | past · progressive | the cocoanuts | the top | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near top=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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