The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 84

The wasp flew to her, and took her back to bed and looked after her, and then he consulted with a rice-mortar and an egg which had fallen out of a nest near by, and they agreed that when the monkey returned, as he was sure to do, to steal the rest of the fruit, that they would punish him severely for the manner in which he had behaved to the crab.

Who acts: wasp, egg, mortar, monkey · What happens: fly, take back, look, consult, fall, agree · To what, where: few, nest, rest, Monkey, manner

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 (wasp, egg, mortar, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wasp	det
2	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 consulted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 consulted	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 consulted	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 consulted	nsubj
21	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 mortar	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mortar	det
24	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mortar	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 rice	punct
26	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 consulted	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 egg	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 egg	det
29	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mortar	conj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fallen	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fallen	aux
32	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 egg	acl:relcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 nest	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 nest	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 nest	det
36	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fallen	obl
37	near	near	ADV	_	32 fallen	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	37 near	fixed
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 agreed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 agreed	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 agreed	nsubj
42	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 returned	mark
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 returned	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 monkey	det
46	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 returned	nsubj
47	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 agreed	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sure	punct
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 sure	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 sure	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 sure	cop
52	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 agreed	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 do	mark
54	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	57 steal	aux
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 steal	punct
56	to	to	PART	_	57 steal	mark
57	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 sure	ccomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 rest	det
59	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 steal	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 fruit	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 fruit	det
62	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 rest	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 punish	punct
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	67 punish	mark
65	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 punish	nsubj
66	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 punish	aux
67	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 steal	conj
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 punish	obj
69	severely	severely	ADV	_	67 punish	advmod
70	for	for	ADP	_	72 manner	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 manner	det
72	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 punish	obl
73	in	in	ADP	_	74 which	case
74	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	77 behaved	obl
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 behaved	nsubj
76	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 behaved	aux
77	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	72 manner	acl:relcl
78	to	to	ADP	_	80 crab	case
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 crab	det
80	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 behaved	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the wasp		few				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
2	take back	past	the wasp not said here		few			to bed	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	look	past	the wasp not said here				after few		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	consult	past	wasp				then	with a rice mortar and a egg	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mortar=Co-Agent
5	fall	past · perfect	a egg			a nest		near property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out nest=Location
6	agree speech: agree	past	mortar						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	return	past	the monkey						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	Monkey					sure property	tree rules
9	steal	to-infinitive · do-support	Monkey not said here	the rest of the fruit					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rest=Theme
10	punish	would	mortar	Monkey				for the manner; severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for manner=Theme
11	behave	past · perfect	Monkey			the manner		to the crab	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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