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title: “Never fear about that, Brother Monkey,” said the Tortoise; “I can a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never fear about that, Brother Monkey,” said the Tortoise; “I can arrange that quite simply. Who acts: Tortoise. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 24

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“Never fear about that, Brother Monkey,” said the Tortoise; “I can arrange that quite simply.

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**Who acts:** Tortoise · **What happens:** not fear, say, arrange · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:21:24
# text = “Never fear about that, Brother Monkey,” said the Tortoise; “I can arrange that quite simply.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Brother	brother	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about that; Brother Monkey *conj* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **arrange** *in a quote* | can | the Tortoise *= tortoise* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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