The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 40

The great trees, chained one to the other by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms, were famous hiding-places for the monkeys, who could wait unseen, till a puma or an elephant passed by, and then jump on their backs and go for a ride, swinging themselves up by the creepers when they had had enough.

Who acts: great trees, monkeys, trees · What happens: chain, flower, be, wait, pass by, jump · To what, where: one, famous hiding places, elephant, backs, trees

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 (great trees, monkeys, trees), 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	3 trees	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chained	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct
5	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 chained	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	nmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 plants	case
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plants	amod
12	flowering	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 plants	amod
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chained	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 scarlet	case
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 scarlet	amod
16	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plants	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 blossoms	cc
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blossoms	amod
19	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 scarlet	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 places	punct
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 places	cop
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 places	amod
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 places	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hiding	punct
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chained	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 monkeys	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 monkeys	det
28	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 places	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wait	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 wait	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 wait	aux
32	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 monkeys	acl:relcl
33	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wait	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 puma	punct
35	till	till	ADP	_	37 puma	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 puma	det
37	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wait	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 elephant	cc
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 elephant	det
40	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 puma	conj
41	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 elephant	acl
42	by	by	ADP	_	41 passed	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 jump	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 jump	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 jump	advmod
46	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 chained	parataxis
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 backs	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 backs	nmod:poss
49	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 jump	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 go	cc
51	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 jump	conj
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 ride	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 ride	det
54	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 go	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 swinging	punct
56	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 go	advcl
57	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 swinging	obj
58	up	up	ADP	_	56 swinging	compound:prt
59	by	by	ADP	_	61 creepers	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 creepers	det
61	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 swinging	obl
62	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	65 had	advmod
63	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 had	nsubj
64	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 had	aux
65	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 swinging	advcl
66	enough	enough	ADV	_	65 had	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain	past	the great trees	one			to the other; by thick flowering plants with bright scarlet or yellow blossoms	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient to other=Co-Patient
2	flower	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		famous hiding places			for the monkeys	tree rules
4	wait	could	the monkeys			till a puma or a elephant	unseen property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass by	participle		a elephant not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	jump	infinitive			trees's backs	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
7	go	infinitive					for a ride	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ride=Beneficiary
8	swing up	gerund		trees = tree			by the creepers	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme by creeper=Location
9	have	past · perfect	trees = tree				enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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