The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 102

What was worse, when once he had tasted the bananas, he found them not at all to his liking, so he threw them all down, green and yellow alike, and let the puma take his choice.

Who acts: stag, puma · What happens: be, taste, not find, throw down, let, take · To what, where: bananas, puma, choice

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, puma), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 worse	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worse	cop
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tasted	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 tasted	advmod
6	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 tasted	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tasted	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tasted	aux
9	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 worse	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bananas	det
11	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tasted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tasted	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 found	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 found	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 liking	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 liking	nmod:poss
21	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 all	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 threw	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	parataxis
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 them	nmod:unmarked
28	down	down	ADV	_	25 threw	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 green	punct
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 threw	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 alike	cc
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 alike	amod
33	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 green	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 puma	det
38	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 let	obj
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 choice	nmod:poss
41	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			bad property	tree rules
2	taste	past · perfect	stag	the bananas		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme banana=Attribute
3	not find	past	stag	bananas = banana		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme all=Attribute
4	throw down	past	stag	bananas = banana	down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	let	infinitive	stag not said here	the puma		tree rules
6	take	infinitive	the puma not said here	stag's choice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme

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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