The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 115
It was only a very little bit and the monkey started up more in rage than in pain.
Who acts: snip, monkey · What happens: be, start up · To what, where: little bit, more, rage
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 (snip, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bit | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bit | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 bit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monkey | det |
| 10 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bit | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 started | compound:prt |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 started | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rage | case |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 pain | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pain | case |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rage | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | snip | a little bit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start up | past | the monkey | more | rage than pain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
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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