The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 40

Never had the monkey been so near death, and it was some time before he recovered enough courage to venture on the ground again.

Who acts: monkey, death, puma · What happens: not have, be, recover, venture · To what, where: death, time, enough courage, ground

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, death, 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 death	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 death	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 death	advmod
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 time	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 recovered	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 recovered	nsubj
17	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
18	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 courage	amod
19	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recovered	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 venture	mark
21	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 recovered	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 venture	obl
25	again	again	ADV	_	21 venture	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not have	past					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	the monkey		death		tree rules
3	is a	past	death	some time			tree rules
4	recover	past	puma	enough courage			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
5	venture	to-infinitive	puma not said here		the ground	again	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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