The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 44

He waited till the man was just underneath the tree, then he hung from a bough, and caught the gourd while the man looked up wondering, for he was no tree-climber.

Who acts: puma, man · What happens: wait, be, hang, catch, look up, wonder · To what, where: bough, gourd

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 (puma, man), 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	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 tree	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tree	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 tree	advmod
8	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hung	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hung	nsubj
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 bough	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bough	det
17	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caught	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 caught	cc
20	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gourd	det
22	gourd	gourd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 caught	obj
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 looked	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caught	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 looked	compound:prt
28	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 looked	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 climber	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	36 climber	case
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 climber	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 climber	cop
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 climber	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 climber	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 tree	punct
36	climber	climber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wondering	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	puma					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the man				underneath the tree	tree rules
3	hang	past	puma		a bough	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	past	puma not said here	the gourd				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gourd=Theme
5	look up	past	the man					tree rules
6	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the man not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	puma				for no tree climber	tree rules

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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