The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 110

There was a famous monkey who was just as clever and more mischievous, because he was so much quicker on his feet and with his hands.

Who acts: famous monkey, Monkey · What happens: be · To what, where: feet

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (famous monkey, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	amod
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 clever	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clever	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	acl:relcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mischievous	cc
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 mischievous	advmod
13	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clever	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feet	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 feet	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 feet	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 feet	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 quicker	advmod
20	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 feet	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 feet	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clever	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hands	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feet	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a famous monkey	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a famous monkey		clever property	tree rules
3	be		a famous monkey not said here			tree rules
4	is	past	Monkey	Monkey's feet and Monkey's hands	quick property	tree rules

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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