Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 8
Meanwhile Mrs. Tortoise was becoming rather anxious concerning her husband’s prolonged absence.
Who acts: Mrs. Tortoise, husband · What happens: become, concern, prolong · To what, where: absence
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 (Mrs. Tortoise, husband), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 becoming | advmod |
| 2 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tortoise | compound |
| 3 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 becoming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 becoming | aux |
| 5 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 anxious | advmod |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 becoming | xcomp |
| 8 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 anxious | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prolonged | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 12 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 concerning | ccomp |
| 13 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prolonged | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · progressive | Mrs. Tortoise | anxious, meanwhile property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | Mrs. Tortoise not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prolong | past | friend's husband | absence | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent absence=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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