The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 80

'Monkey, come to me!' cried the ant; and before you could turn round a monkey was swinging herself from the topmost branches into the room where the giant lay snoring.

Who acts: Monkey, you, giant · What happens: come, cry, turn round, swing, lie, snore · To what, where: me, ant, Monkey, topmost branches

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey, you, giant), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Monkey	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ant	det
11	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 turn	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 turn	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	aux
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
18	round	round	ADP	_	22 swinging	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swinging	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swinging	aux
22	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 turn	advcl
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 swinging	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 branches	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 branches	det
26	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 branches	amod
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 swinging	obl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swinging	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 lay	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 room	acl:relcl
35	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 lay	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Monkey		me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past	Monkey not said here	the ant				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic
3	turn round	could	you					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	swing	past · progressive	a monkey	Monkey		the topmost branches	into the room	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from branch=Source into room=Trajectory
5	lie	past	the giant					tree rules
6	snore	gerund	the giant not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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