The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 117
The barber refused to give back the missing piece, so the monkey caught up a razor from the table and ran away with it, and no one in the forest could be shaved for days, as there was not another to be got for miles and miles.
Who acts: barber, monkey, another · What happens: refuse, not give back, catch up, run away, shave, be · To what, where: missing piece, razor, table, one
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 (barber, monkey, another), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 barber | det |
| 2 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 8 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 piece | amod |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 caught | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monkey | det |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 refused | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 caught | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 razor | det |
| 17 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 razor | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ran | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shaved | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shaved | cc |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shaved | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 one | nmod |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 shaved | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 shaved | aux:pass |
| 35 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 refused | parataxis |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 shaved | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 was | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 was | mark |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 shaved | parataxis |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 another | advmod |
| 43 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 41 was | nsubj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 got | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 got | aux:pass |
| 46 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 another | acl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 miles | case |
| 48 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 got | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 miles | cc |
| 50 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 miles | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the barber | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not give back | to-infinitive | the barber not said here | the missing piece | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch up | participle | the monkey | a razor | the table | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from table=Source | |||
| 4 | run away | past | the monkey not said here | with table; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 5 | shave | could · passive | no one in the forest | day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | be | past | another | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive · passive | another not said here | for miles and miles | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: for mile=Source |
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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