The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 76
In another moment he was swinging himself from branch to branch, eating all the ripest kakis and filling his pockets with the rest, and the poor crab saw to her disgust that the few he threw down to her were either not ripe at all or else quite rotten.
Who acts: Monkey, poor crab, few, Pray · What happens: swing, eat, fill, see, throw down, not ripe · To what, where: Monkey, branch, ripest kakis, pockets, all
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 (Monkey, poor crab, few, Pray), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 swinging | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swinging | aux |
| 6 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 swinging | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 branch | case |
| 9 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swinging | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 branch | case |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swinging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eating | punct |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 swinging | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kakis | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kakis | det |
| 16 | ripest | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 kakis | amod |
| 17 | kakis | kaki | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eating | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filling | cc |
| 19 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 eating | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filling | obj | |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filling | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crab | det |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 crab | amod |
| 29 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 disgust | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 disgust | nmod:poss |
| 33 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | obl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 threw | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 few | det |
| 36 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 threw | nsubj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 threw | nsubj |
| 38 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saw | advcl |
| 39 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 threw | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 45 ripe | mark |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 ripe | nmod:poss |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 ripe | aux |
| 43 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 45 ripe | cc:preconj |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 ripe | advmod |
| 45 | ripe | ripe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 threw | advcl |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 all | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 ripe | obj |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 rotten | cc |
| 49 | else | else | ADV | _ | 51 rotten | advmod |
| 50 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 51 rotten | advmod |
| 51 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 all | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past · progressive | Monkey | Monkey | branch | to branch result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient himself=Extent from branch=Initial_State to branch=Result | ||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Monkey not said here | all ripest kakis | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaki=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill | gerund | Monkey not said here | Monkey's pockets | with the rest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with rest=Instrument | |||
| 4 | see | past | the poor crab | moment | to Pray's disgust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | throw down | past | the few | down property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not ripe | past | the few not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | disgust | Pray | nom disgust «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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