Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 7
The Tortoise was so interested with all he saw and so pleased with his friend the Monkey, that he remained for several days in the forest, moving about during the day and sleeping with the Monkey in the cave every night.
Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: be, see, remain, move about, sleep · To what, where: forest, 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 (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 Tortoise | det |
| 2 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 interested | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 interested | advmod |
| 5 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 interested | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleased | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 pleased | advmod |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 interested | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pleased | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Monkey | det |
| 17 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 remained | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 23 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 remained | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 moving | punct |
| 29 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 remained | advcl |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 moving | advmod |
| 31 | during | during | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 moving | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sleeping | cc |
| 35 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 moving | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 Monkey | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Monkey | det |
| 38 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleeping | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 cave | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cave | det |
| 41 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleeping | obl |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 night | det |
| 43 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleeping | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tortoise | with all; interested property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Tortoise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be | the Tortoise not said here | with Tortoise's friend the Monkey | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | Tortoise | the forest | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 5 | move about | gerund | Tortoise not said here | day | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | sleep | gerund | Tortoise not said here | the cave | night | with the Monkey | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=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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