The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 30

Often and often the puma had laid traps for the monkey, which he felt sure his foe could not escape; and the monkey would pretend that he saw nothing, and rejoice the hidden puma’s heart by seeming to walk straight into the snare, when, lo! a loud laugh would be heard, and the monkey’s grinning face would peer out of a mass of creepers and disappear before his foe could reach him.

Who acts: monkey, foe, cause, grinning face · What happens: lay, feel, not escape, pretend, see, rejoice · To what, where: puma, nothing, heart, snare, loud laugh, cause

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, foe, cause, grinning face), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	7 laid	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laid	cc
3	often	often	ADV	_	7 laid	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 puma	det
5	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laid	aux
7	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 traps	amod
8	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traps	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 felt	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 monkey	acl:relcl
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 felt	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 foe	nmod:poss
18	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 escape	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 escape	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 escape	advmod
21	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pretend	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pretend	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 monkey	det
25	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pretend	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pretend	aux
27	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 felt	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 saw	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pretend	ccomp
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 saw	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rejoice	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rejoice	cc
34	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pretend	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 puma	det
36	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 puma	amod
37	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 heart	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 puma	case
39	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rejoice	obj
40	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 seeming	mark
41	seeming	seem	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 rejoice	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 walk	mark
43	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 seeming	xcomp
44	straight	straight	ADV	_	47 snare	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 snare	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 snare	det
47	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 walk	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 when	punct
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 pretend	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 heard	punct
51	lo	lo	INTJ	_	58 heard	discourse
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	58 heard	punct
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 laugh	det
54	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 laugh	amod
55	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 heard	nsubj
56	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 heard	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 heard	aux:pass
58	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 pretend	parataxis
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 peer	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 peer	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 monkey	det
62	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 face	nmod:poss
63	’s	's	PART	_	62 monkey	case
64	grinning	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 face	amod
65	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 peer	nsubj
66	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 peer	aux
67	peer	peer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 heard	conj
68	out	out	ADP	_	71 mass	case
69	of	of	ADP	_	71 mass	case
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 mass	det
71	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 peer	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 creepers	case
73	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 mass	nmod
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 disappear	cc
75	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 peer	conj
76	before	before	SCONJ	_	80 reach	mark
77	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	78 foe	nmod:poss
78	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 reach	nsubj
79	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 reach	aux
80	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 disappear	advcl
81	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 reach	obj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 traps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect · passive		the puma	often property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	feel	past	the monkey		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not escape	could	cause's foe			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pretend	would	the monkey			tree rules
5	see	past	cause	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	rejoice	infinitive	the monkey not said here	the hidden puma's heart		tree rules
7	seem	gerund	the monkey not said here			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	walk	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	the snare		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snare=Trajectory
9	hear	would · passive		a loud laugh		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
10	grin	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	peer	would	the monkey's grinning face		out a mass of creepers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out mass=Theme
12	disappear	present	the monkey's grinning face not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	reach	could	cause's foe	cause		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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