Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 56
On hearing this the Monkey chuckled to himself at the simplicity of the Tortoise, and went off to sleep in some other part of the forest.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: hear, chuckle, go off, sleep · To what, where: this, Tortoise, simplicity, other part
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 chuckled | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Monkey | det |
| 5 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuckled | nsubj |
| 6 | chuckled | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 chuckled | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 simplicity | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 simplicity | det |
| 11 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuckled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Tortoise | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tortoise | det |
| 14 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 simplicity | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chuckled | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 part | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Monkey not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | chuckle | past | the Monkey | Tortoise | the simplicity of the Tortoise | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go off | past | the Monkey not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Monkey not said here | some other part of the forest | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location |
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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