Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 46
The Tortoise lay low in his dark corner and gave no sign of life.
Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: lie, give, sign · To what, where: dark corner, sign, life
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), 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 | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 corner | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corner | amod |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the Tortoise | Tortoise's dark corner | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the Tortoise not said here | no sign of life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sign | life | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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