Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 50
“Curious thing,” said the Monkey to himself in an audible tone of voice, “very curious!
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: say, intonate · To what, where: Tortoise, audible tone, voice · 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| 2 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Monkey | det |
| 8 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 13 | audible | audible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tone | amod |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tone | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 curious | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 curious | punct |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 curious | advmod |
| 20 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Monkey | Tortoise | a audible tone of voice | Curious thing ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | intonate | voice | nom tone «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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