--- title: So she sent the boy back again to his father, with a message to say… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So she sent the boy back again to his father, with a message to say that Mrs. Tortoise was very ill, and that her physician had told her that the only thing to cure her was a Monkey’s heart. Who acts: Mrs., only thing. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / [The Story of the Tortoise and the Monk…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/) / 18 # Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 18 So she sent the boy back again to his father, with a message to say that Mrs. Tortoise was very ill, and that her physician had told her that the only thing to cure her was a Monkey’s heart. **Who acts:** Mrs., only thing · **What happens:** send back, say, be, tell, cure · **To what, where:** boy, father, physician, Mrs., heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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., only thing), 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:pg75000:21:18 # text = So she sent the boy back again to his father, with a message to say that Mrs. Tortoise was very ill, and that her physician had told her that the only thing to cure her was a Monkey’s heart. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 Mrs. Mrs. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 physician physician NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send back** | past | Mrs. | the boy | boy's father | | again | with a message | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to father=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Mrs. *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | Mrs. | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | Mrs.'s physician | Mrs. | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic | | 5 | **cure** | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | Mrs. | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | | 6 | **is a** | past | the only thing | a Monkey's heart | | | | a Monkey *nmod:poss* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/19/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/)