Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 54
The foolish Tortoise, thinking that if he simulated an echo the Monkey would enter the cave as usual, hereupon gave answer from his dark corner:
Who acts: foolish Tortoise, Tortoise, Monkey · What happens: think, simulate, enter, give · To what, where: echo, cave, answer, dark corner · 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 (foolish Tortoise, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tortoise | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tortoise | amod |
| 3 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Tortoise | acl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 enter | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 simulated | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 simulated | nsubj |
| 9 | simulated | simulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enter | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 echo | det |
| 11 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 simulated | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Monkey | det |
| 13 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 enter | aux |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thinking | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 usual | case |
| 19 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 enter | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | hereupon | hereupon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 corner | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 corner | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 corner | amod |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the foolish Tortoise not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | simulate a condition, not said to happen | past | Tortoise | a echo | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enter | would | the Monkey | the cave | as usual | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | |||
| 4 | give | past | the foolish Tortoise | answer | Tortoise's dark corner | hereupon nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
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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