The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 48

Thanks to this, the monkey was allowed to drink at the pool as often as he liked, for neither beast nor bird had the faintest notion who he was.

Who acts: monkey, Thanks · What happens: allow, drink, like, have · To what, where: monkey, pool, faintest notion

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, Thanks), 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	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Thanks	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 had	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drink	mark
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 pool	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pool	det
13	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 often	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	8 allowed	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 liked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	nsubj
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 often	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beast	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 beast	case
21	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	22 beast	det
22	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 bird	cc
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beast	conj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 notion	det
27	faintest	faint	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 notion	amod
28	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 was	nsubj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 was	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 notion	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	past · passive		the monkey		often property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here		the pool		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	past	Thanks				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	have	past	Thanks to this	the faintest notion			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient

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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