Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 5

The Monkey, who had been watching the Tortoise’s attempts to climb the tree with some curiosity, felt rather sorry at his failure, and noticing that the Tortoise was a fine, well-grown fellow with a very handsome shell, he thought he would do him a kindness, so breaking off one or two of the cocoanuts, he threw them down to the Tortoise, who gratefully ate the fruit.

Who acts: Monkey, Tortoise · What happens: watch, climb, feel, notice, be, grow · To what, where: attempts, tree, grown fellow, forest, one, trees · 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 (Monkey, 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 Monkey	det
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 felt	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watching	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 watching	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Monkey	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tortoise	det
9	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 attempts	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Tortoise	case
11	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watching	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 climb	mark
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 watching	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 curiosity	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 curiosity	det
18	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Monkey	punct
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 sorry	advmod
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 felt	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 failure	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 failure	nmod:poss
25	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sorry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 noticing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 noticing	cc
28	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 felt	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 fine	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tortoise	det
31	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 fine	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 fine	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fine	det
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fellow	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fine	punct
36	well	well	INTJ	_	38 grown	discourse
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 well	punct
38	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 fellow	amod
39	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 noticing	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	44 shell	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 shell	det
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 handsome	advmod
43	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 shell	amod
44	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fellow	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thought	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thought	nsubj
47	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 felt	conj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 do	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 do	aux
50	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 thought	ccomp
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 do	obj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 kindness	det
53	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 do	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 breaking	punct
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 breaking	advmod
56	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 thought	advcl
57	off	off	ADP	_	56 breaking	compound:prt
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 breaking	obj
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	60 two	cc
60	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 one	conj
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 cocoanuts	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 cocoanuts	det
63	cocoanuts	cocoanut	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 one	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 threw	punct
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 threw	nsubj
66	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 felt	conj
67	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 threw	obj
68	down	down	ADP	_	66 threw	compound:prt
69	to	to	ADP	_	71 Tortoise	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 Tortoise	det
71	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 threw	obl
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 ate	punct
73	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 ate	nsubj
74	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	75 ate	advmod
75	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 Tortoise	acl:relcl
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 fruit	det
77	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 ate	obj
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect · progressive	the Monkey	the Tortoise's attempts			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Theme
2	climb	to-infinitive	the Monkey not said here	the tree		with some curiosity	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	feel	past	the Monkey			sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	notice	gerund	the Monkey not said here	grown fellow with a handsome shell			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the Tortoise			fine property	tree rules
6	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	Tortoise				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	do	would	Tortoise	forest		a kindness obj	tree rules
9	break off	gerund	Tortoise not said here	one of the cocoanuts			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient
10	throw down	past	Tortoise	trees = tree	the Tortoise		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to tortoise=Destination
11	eat	past	the Tortoise	the fruit		gratefully property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
12	attempt		the Tortoise				nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent
13	fail		Tortoise				nom failure «act intransitive»: 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 5

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 5