---
title: _) in which the partridge, monkey, and elephant dispute as to their… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _) in which the partridge, monkey, and elephant dispute as to their relative age, and the partridge turns out to have voided the seed of the Banyan-tree under which they were sheltered, whereas the elephant only knew it when a mere bush, and the monkey had nibbled the topmost shoots. Who acts: partr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/) / 10

# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\_) in which the partridge, monkey, and elephant dispute as to their relative age, and the partridge turns out to have voided the seed of the Banyan-tree under which they were sheltered, whereas the elephant only knew it when a mere bush, and the monkey had nibbled the topmost shoots.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** partridge, elephant · **What happens:** turn out, void, shelter, know, nibble · **To what, where:** seed, partridge, Banyan tree, monkey

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (partridge, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:47:10
# text = _) in which the partridge, monkey, and elephant dispute as to their relative age, and the partridge turns out to have voided the seed of the Banyan-tree under which they were sheltered, whereas the elephant only knew it when a mere bush, and the monkey had nibbled the topmost shoots.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	relative	relative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	voided	void	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Banyan	Banyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | present | the partridge |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **void** | to-infinitive · perfect | the partridge *not said here* | the seed of the Banyan tree |  |  |  |  | vn void-106 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 3 | **shelter** | past · passive |  | partridge |  | the Banyan tree |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under which=Location |
| 4 | **know** | past | the elephant | seed |  |  |  | a mere bush *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **nibble** | past · perfect · passive |  | the monkey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/11/)
- ↑ back to [XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/)