The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 80

The monkey prided himself on turning better somersaults than any of his family, so he instantly went head over heels three times on the bough on which he was sitting, and all the beautiful kakis that he had in his pockets rolled to the ground.

Who acts: monkey, beautiful kakis · What happens: pride, turn, go, sit, have, roll · To what, where: Monkey, better somersaults, head, heels, bough, pockets

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, beautiful kakis), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prided	nsubj
3	prided	pride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 prided	obj
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 turning	mark
6	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 prided	advcl
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 somersaults	amod
8	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turning	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 any	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 somersaults	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 any	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
17	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prided	conj
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl:unmarked
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 heels	case
21	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl:unmarked
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 bough	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bough	det
26	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 sitting	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sitting	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sitting	aux
31	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 bough	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rolled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rolled	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 kakis	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kakis	det
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 kakis	amod
37	kakis	kaki	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 rolled	nsubj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 kakis	advcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 pockets	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 pockets	nmod:poss
43	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	obl
44	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prided	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 ground	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ground	det
47	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 rolled	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 prided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pride	past	the monkey	Monkey				tree rules
2	turn	gerund	the monkey not said here	better somersaults			than any	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
3	go	past	Monkey	head	heels	time	on the bough; instantly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over heel=Initial_Location
4	sit	past · progressive	Monkey		the bough			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
5	have	past	Monkey		Monkey's pockets			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	roll	past	all beautiful kakis		the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Destination

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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