The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 94
The monkey shrieked and ran to the door, but as he passed through down fell the mortar and struck him dead.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: shriek, run, pass down, fall, strike · To what, where: mortar, Monkey
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), 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 shrieked | nsubj |
| 3 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrieked | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrieked | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mortar | det |
| 18 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 struck | obj |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 struck | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | the monkey | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the monkey not said here | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 3 | pass down | past | Monkey | down, through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the mortar | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mortar=Result | |||||
| 5 | strike | past | Monkey | dead property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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