Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 41

The Tortoise, on hearing these words, fell into a violent passion, and made several efforts to climb the tree in order to punish the Monkey, but being quite unable to climb at all, he soon gave up his attempt and determined to get even with the Monkey in some other way.

Who acts: Tortoise, several efforts · What happens: hear, fall, make, climb, punish, be · To what, where: words, violent passion, several efforts, tree, Monkey, all

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, several efforts), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hearing	punct
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 hearing	mark
5	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Tortoise	conj
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hearing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tortoise	punct
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 passion	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 passion	det
12	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 passion	amod
13	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 efforts	amod
18	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 climb	mark
20	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	obj
23	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 punish	mark
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 in	fixed
25	to	to	PART	_	26 punish	mark
26	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 climb	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Monkey	det
28	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 punish	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 unable	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 unable	cc
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 unable	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 unable	advmod
33	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 made	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 climb	mark
35	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 unable	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 climb	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gave	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gave	nsubj
40	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 gave	advmod
41	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 gave	compound:prt
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 attempt	nmod:poss
44	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gave	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 determined	cc
46	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 attempt	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 get	mark
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 gave	advcl
49	even	even	ADV	_	52 Monkey	advmod
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 Monkey	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Monkey	det
52	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 way	case
54	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	56 way	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 way	amod
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Tortoise not said here	this words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	fall	past	the Tortoise			into a violent passion result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result
3	make	past	the Tortoise not said here	several efforts			tree rules
4	climb	to-infinitive	several efforts not said here	the tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	punish	to-infinitive	several efforts not said here	the Monkey			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient
6	is	gerund	the Tortoise not said here			unable property	tree rules
7	climb	to-infinitive	the Tortoise not said here		all		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory
8	give up	past	Tortoise	Tortoise's attempt		soon property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Source
9	get	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	the Monkey	some other way		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
10	attempt		Tortoise				nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 41