Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 6
The two animals now entered into conversation with one another, and soon striking up quite a friendship, the Monkey led away the Tortoise into the jungle, and showed him a comfortable cave where he could spend the night.
Who acts: two animals, Monkey, Tortoise · What happens: enter, strike up, lead away, show, spend · To what, where: conversation, friendship, Tortoise, jungle, comfortable cave
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 (two animals, 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 | 3 animals | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 animals | nummod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 entered | advmod |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 conversation | case |
| 7 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 entered | obl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 striking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 striking | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 striking | advmod |
| 14 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 entered | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 striking | compound:prt |
| 16 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 friendship | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 friendship | det |
| 18 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 striking | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Monkey | det |
| 21 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | parataxis |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 led | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tortoise | det |
| 25 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 jungle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jungle | det |
| 28 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 showed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 showed | cc |
| 31 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 led | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 showed | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cave | det |
| 34 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cave | amod |
| 35 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 showed | obj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 spend | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 spend | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 spend | aux |
| 39 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 cave | acl:relcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 night | det |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spend | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the two animals | conversation | now | with one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | strike up | gerund | the two animals not said here | quite friendship | soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Patient | |||
| 3 | lead away | past | the Monkey | the Tortoise | the jungle | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme into jungle=Destination | ||
| 4 | show | past | the Monkey not said here | a comfortable cave | Tortoise | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cave=Topic | |||
| 5 | spend | could | Tortoise | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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