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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 34

As soon as he found himself on dry land the Monkey skipped off the Tortoise’s back as fast as he could, and climbed to the top of the tallest tree he could find in a twinkling.

Who acts: Tortoise, Monkey · What happens: find, skip, climb · To what, where: Tortoise, dry land, twinkling

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, 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

advmodadvmodmarknsubjobjcaseamodobldetnsubjconjcasedetoblcaseadvmodadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclpunctccparataxiscasedetoblcasedetamodnmodnsubjauxccompcasedetoblpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJhePRONfoundVERBhimselfPRONonADPdryADJlandNOUNtheDETMonkeyPROPNskippedVERBoffADPtheDETTortoisePROPN’sPARTbackADVasADVfastADVasSCONJhePRONcouldAUX,PUNCTandCCONJclimbedVERBtoADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPtheDETtallestADJtreeNOUNhePRONcouldAUXfindVERBinADPaDETtwinklingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos5 foundadvmod
3asasSCONJ_5 foundmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 foundnsubj
5foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes5 foundobj
7ononADP_9 landcase
8drydryADJDegree=Pos9 landamod
9landlandNOUNNumber=Sing5 foundobl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Monkeydet
11MonkeyMonkeyPROPNNumber=Sing12 skippednsubj
12skippedskipVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 foundconj
13offoffADP_15 Tortoisecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Tortoisedet
15TortoiseTortoisePROPNNumber=Sing12 skippedobl
16’s'sPART_15 Tortoisecase
17backbackADV_19 fastadvmod
18asasADV_19 fastadvmod
19fastfastADVDegree=Pos12 skippedadvmod
20asasSCONJ_22 couldmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 couldnsubj
22couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin19 fastadvcl
23,,PUNCT_25 climbedpunct
24andandCCONJ_25 climbedcc
25climbedclimbVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 foundparataxis
26totoADP_28 topcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 topdet
28toptopNOUNNumber=Sing25 climbedobl
29ofofADP_32 treecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 treedet
31tallesttallADJDegree=Sup32 treeamod
32treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing28 topnmod
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 findnsubj
34couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 findaux
35findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf25 climbedccomp
36ininADP_38 twinklingcase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 twinklingdet
38twinklingtwinklingNOUNNumber=Sing35 findobl
39..PUNCT_5 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpastTortoiseTortoisedry landsoon propertyvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2skippastthe Monkeythe Tortoisefast propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off tortoise=Trajectory
3climbpastto the top of the tallest treetree rules
4findcouldTortoisea twinklingvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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