The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 34
His only thought for years had been how to get the monkey into his power, and this time he imagined his chance had really arrived.
Who acts: animal · What happens: think, be, imagine, arrive, chance · To what, where: animal, power, time, chance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (animal), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 been | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 get | cop |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 get | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monkey | det |
| 12 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 arrived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 arrived | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 imagined | nsubj |
| 21 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 arrived | aux |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 arrived | advmod |
| 26 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | animal | year | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | animal's power | get property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imagine | past | animal | this time not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | animal's chance | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chance | animal | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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