The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 45

Then the monkey rubbed the honey all over him, and a quantity of leaves from a creeper that was hanging close by; he stuck them all close together into the honey, so that he looked like a walking bush.

Who acts: monkey, creeper, puma · What happens: rub, hang, stick, look, walk · To what, where: honey, creepers

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, creeper, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rubbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	nsubj
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 honey	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 him	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rubbed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quantity	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quantity	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quantity	det
13	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 leaves	case
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 quantity	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 creeper	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 creeper	det
18	creeper	creeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quantity	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hanging	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hanging	aux
21	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 creeper	acl:relcl
22	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hanging	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	21 hanging	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stuck	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stuck	nsubj
26	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rubbed	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stuck	obj
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 close	advmod
29	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 stuck	advmod
30	together	together	ADV	_	26 stuck	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 honey	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 honey	det
33	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stuck	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 looked	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stuck	conj
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 bush	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bush	det
41	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 bush	amod
42	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	the monkey	the honey		then	over puma; a quantity of leaves from a creeper obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honey=Theme over he=Destination
2	hang	past · progressive	a creeper				close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stick	past	puma	creepers = creeper	the honey		close, together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into honey=Destination
4	look	past	puma				like a walking bush	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	walk	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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