The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 111

It was quite impossible to catch him and give him the thrashing he so often deserved, for he just swung himself up into a tree and laughed at the angry victim who was sitting below.

Who acts: Monkey, angry victim · What happens: be, catch, give, deserve, swing up, laugh · To what, where: Monkey, thrashing, tree, angry victim

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 (Monkey, angry victim), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:3208): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 impossible	advmod
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	csubj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 catch	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thrashing	det
12	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deserved	nsubj
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 deserved	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 deserved	advmod
16	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thrashing	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swung	punct
18	for	for	CCONJ	_	21 swung	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 swung	nsubj
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 swung	advmod
21	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 swung	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 swung	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swung	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laughed	cc
28	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 swung	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 victim	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 victim	det
31	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 victim	amod
32	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laughed	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sitting	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sitting	aux
35	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 victim	acl:relcl
36	below	below	ADV	_	35 sitting	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past					impossible property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive		Monkey				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	give	infinitive		the thrashing	Monkey			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thrashing=Theme
4	deserve	past	Monkey	the thrashing not said here			often property	tree rules
5	swing up	past	Monkey	Monkey		a tree		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into tree=Trajectory
6	laugh	past	Monkey not said here			the angry victim		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sit	past · progressive	the angry victim				below property	vn assuming_position-50 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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