The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 38
The monkey, who was stooping to drink, heard a rustling, and turning caught the gleam of two yellow, murderous eyes.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: stoop, drink, hear, turn, catch · To what, where: rustling, gleam
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stooping | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stooping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stooping | aux |
| 6 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drink | mark |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stooping | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 monkey | punct |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rustling | det |
| 12 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gleam | det |
| 18 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 eyes | nummod |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 yellow | punct |
| 23 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gleam | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past · progressive | the monkey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | the monkey not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | the monkey | a rustling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | catch | past | the gleam of two yellow murderous eyes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=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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