The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 28
Now the monkey’s tiresome tricks had made him many enemies in the forest, but no one hated him so much as the puma.
Who acts: one, monkey · What happens: make, hate, trick · To what, where: tiresome tricks, forest, man
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 (one, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 monkey | case |
| 5 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tricks | amod |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 enemies | amod |
| 11 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hated | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 hated | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hated | nsubj |
| 19 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hated | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 hated | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 puma | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 puma | det |
| 25 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 much | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the monkey's tiresome tricks | the forest | now | many enemies obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | ||
| 2 | hate | past | no one | man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | trick | the monkey | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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