--- title: Three great friends, a tortoise, a weasel and a crow, were talking t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Three great friends, a tortoise, a weasel and a crow, were talking together one fine day when they were disturbed by the noise of an animal who was coming their way in great haste. Who acts: Three great friends, noise, animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three great friends, noise, animal), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:21:103 # text = Three great friends, a tortoise, a weasel and a crow, were talking together one fine day when they were disturbed by the noise of an animal who was coming their way in great haste. 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 weasel weasel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 when when SCONJ WRB _ 23 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 disturbed disturb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | Three great friends and a tortoise and a weasel and a crow | | | | day | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **disturb** | past · passive | the noise of a animal | FRIENDS *= friend* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | past · progressive | a animal | FRIENDS's way | | great haste | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Location | | 4 | **noise** | | a animal | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/21/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/21/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/21/)