The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 46
Directly they came to the window of the robber captain’s room, the monkey sprang from the backs of the fox and the squirrel, and climbed in.
Who acts: others, monkey · What happens: come, spring, climb · To what, where: window, backs
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 9 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 captain | compound |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 captain | case |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 window | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprang | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sprang | nsubj |
| 16 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 backs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 backs | det |
| 19 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sprang | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fox | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fox | det |
| 22 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 backs | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 squirrel | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 squirrel | det |
| 25 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fox | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 climbed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 climbed | cc |
| 28 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 climbed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | others = other | the window of the robber captain's room | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the monkey | the backs of the fox and the squirrel | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from back=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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