The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 16
And to a monkey, the climb down the tree into the courtyard did not take half a minute.
Who acts: climb · What happens: not take
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (climb), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 monkey | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 monkey | det |
| 4 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monkey | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 climb | det |
| 7 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 courtyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 courtyard | det |
| 13 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | nmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 minute | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 minute | det |
| 19 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | the climb down the tree into the courtyard | minute | to a monkey result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to monkey=Result |
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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