The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 35

He would hide himself in a thicket, and when the monkey came down to drink—and come he must—the puma would spring out and seize him.

Who acts: chance, monkey, puma · What happens: hide, come down, drink, come, spring out, seize · To what, where: chance, thicket

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 (chance, monkey, puma), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hide	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 hide	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 thicket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thicket	det
7	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drink	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drink	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hide	conj
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hide	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 must	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	obl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 spring	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 puma	det
24	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spring	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 spring	aux
26	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hide	parataxis
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 spring	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seize	cc
29	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 spring	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seize	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	would	chance	chance	a thicket		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in thicket=Location
2	come down	past	the monkey			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drink	to-infinitive	chance not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring out	would	the puma				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seize	infinitive	the puma not said here	chance			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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