The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 11
A few days later the monkey stopped again at the baker’s hut.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: stop · To what, where: hut
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baker | det |
| 11 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hut | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 baker | case |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the monkey | the baker's hut | again | late property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location |
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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