Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 32

The Tortoise thought that this was a good idea, and agreed to carry the Monkey back to the shore and await him there while he went off to fetch some other Monkeys.

Who acts: Tortoise, this · What happens: think, be, agree, carry back, await, go off · To what, where: good idea, Monkey, shore, Tortoise, other Monkeys · 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, this), 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 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 idea	mark
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 idea	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 idea	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 idea	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 idea	amod
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 agreed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 agreed	cc
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 agreed	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Monkey	det
16	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 shore	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 await	cc
22	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 carry	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 await	obj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 await	advmod
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 await	advcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 went	compound:prt
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fetch	mark
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	xcomp
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 Monkeys	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Monkeys	amod
33	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fetch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Tortoise			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	this	a good idea		tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry back not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Monkey	the shore	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme to shore=Destination
5	await	infinitive		Tortoise	there	tree rules
6	go off	past	Tortoise			tree rules
7	fetch	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	some other Monkeys		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 32