The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 63

Delighted at this discovery, she hastened to the spot, and was carrying the rice back to her hole when a monkey, who lived in some trees near by, came down to see what the crab was doing.

Who acts: pilgrim, monkey, crab · What happens: hasten, carry, live, come down, see, do · To what, where: spot, rice, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilgrim, monkey, crab), 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	Delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hastened	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 discovery	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 discovery	det
4	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Delighted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Delighted	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hastened	nsubj
7	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spot	det
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hastened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carrying	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	aux
14	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hastened	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rice	det
16	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	14 carrying	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hole	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hole	nmod:poss
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	obl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 came	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 monkey	det
23	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 monkey	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 trees	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 trees	det
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lived	obl
30	near	near	ADV	_	26 lived	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	26 lived	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 monkey	punct
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	advcl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 came	advcl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 doing	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 crab	det
39	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 doing	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 doing	aux
41	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 see	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	pilgrim		the spot		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination
2	carry	past · progressive	pilgrim not said here	the rice			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme
3	live	past	a monkey		some trees	near property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
4	come down	past	a monkey			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	a monkey not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	past · progressive	the crab				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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