The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 19

Indeed, when they saw the monkey approaching not long after, they rushed to meet him, hoping that he was bringing them some more presents.

Who acts: children, monkey, fish · What happens: see, approach, rush, meet, hope, bring · To what, where: monkey, fish, children

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 (children, monkey, fish), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 monkey	acl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 after	advmod
11	after	after	ADV	_	8 approaching	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rushed	nsubj
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 meet	mark
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rushed	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meet	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoping	punct
19	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 rushed	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bringing	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bringing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bringing	aux
23	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 hoping	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bringing	obj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 presents	det
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 presents	amod
27	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bringing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	children = child	the monkey	indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
2	approach	gerund	the monkey not said here		after property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	past	children = child			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
4	meet	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	fish		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	hope	gerund	children = child not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	bring	past · progressive	fish	children = child		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination present=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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