The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 52

So one night, when everything was still and silent, and even the chattering parrots were asleep on one leg, the monkey stole down softly from his perch, and washed off the honey and the leaves, and came out from his bath in his own proper skin.

Who acts: everything, chattering parrots, monkey · What happens: be, steal down, wash off, come out · To what, where: one leg, perch, honey, bath

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 (everything, chattering parrots, 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 silent	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 night	nummod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 silent	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 silent	advmod
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 silent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 silent	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 silent	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 silent	cc
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asleep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asleep	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 parrots	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 parrots	det
15	chattering	chattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parrots	compound
16	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 asleep	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asleep	cop
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 silent	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 leg	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 leg	nummod
21	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asleep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stole	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 monkey	det
24	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stole	nsubj
25	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asleep	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 stole	advmod
27	softly	softly	ADV	_	30 perch	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 perch	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 perch	nmod:poss
30	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stole	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 washed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 washed	cc
33	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 stole	parataxis
34	off	off	ADP	_	36 honey	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 honey	det
36	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 washed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 leaves	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 leaves	det
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 honey	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 washed	conj
43	out	out	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 bath	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bath	nmod:poss
46	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 came	obl
47	in	in	ADP	_	51 skin	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 skin	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 skin	amod
50	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 skin	amod
51	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bath	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything			still; night	silent property	tree rules
2	is	past	the chattering parrots		one leg		asleep property	tree rules
3	steal down	past	the monkey		parrot's perch		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wash off	participle		the honey and the leaves				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
5	come out	past			parrot's bath in parrot's own proper skin		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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