The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 27

She never went back to the hut, but on the whole she was not much to be pitied, for monkeys are nearly as good as children to play with, and they taught her how to swing, and to climb, and to fly from tree to tree, and everything else they knew, which was a great deal.

Who acts: woman, monkeys, children · What happens: not go back, not be, pity, be, play, teach · To what, where: woman, tree, everything, great deal

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 (woman, monkeys, children), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 much	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 whole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whole	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 much	amod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 much	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 much	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 pitied	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 pitied	aux:pass
19	pitied	pity	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 much	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 good	mark
22	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 good	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 good	cop
24	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	26 good	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 good	advmod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pitied	parataxis
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 children	case
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 good	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 good	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	30 play	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taught	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 taught	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taught	nsubj
35	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taught	iobj
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 swing	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 swing	mark
39	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 taught	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 climb	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 climb	cc
42	to	to	PART	_	43 climb	mark
43	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 swing	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fly	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fly	cc
46	to	to	PART	_	47 fly	mark
47	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 swing	parataxis
48	from	from	ADP	_	49 tree	case
49	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fly	obl
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 tree	case
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fly	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 knew	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 knew	cc
54	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	57 knew	obj
55	else	else	ADV	_	54 everything	advmod
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 knew	nsubj
57	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 deal	punct
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 deal	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 deal	cop
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 deal	det
62	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 deal	amod
63	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 knew	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go back	past	woman				to the hut result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result
2	not is	past	woman				much property	tree rules
3	pity	to-infinitive · passive	woman not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
4	is	present	monkeys				as children; good, nearly property	tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	monkeys not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	teach speech: other	past	children = child		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	swing	to-infinitive	children = child not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	climb	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fly	to-infinitive				tree	to tree	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial_Location to tree=Destination
10	know	past	children = child	everything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
11	is a	past		a great deal				tree rules

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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