The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 87

Soon after everything was ready the monkey jumped down from his tree, and creeping to the door began a long hypocritical speech, asking pardon for all he had done.

Who acts: everything, ready monkey, creeping, Monkey · What happens: be, jump down, creep, begin, ask, do · To what, where: tree, door, long hypocritical speech, pardon

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 (everything, ready monkey, creeping, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ready	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 ready	mark
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 monkey	amod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	nsubj
8	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 jumped	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tree	nmod:poss
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
15	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 began	csubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creeping	obl
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 jumped	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 speech	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 speech	amod
22	hypocritical	hypocritical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 speech	amod
23	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 began	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 asking	punct
25	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 began	parataxis
26	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asking	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 asking	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 all	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything			ready, soon property	tree rules
2	jump down	past	the ready monkey		Monkey's tree	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
3	creep	gerund			the door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination
4	begin	past	creeping	a long hypocritical speech			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	gerund		pardon		for all	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
6	do	past · perfect	Monkey				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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