The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 63

The monkey quietly climbed up the nearest tree, and ate fruit most of the day, but the rabbit tired himself to death poking his nose into every heap of dried leaves he saw, hoping to find a serpent among them.

Who acts: monkey, death, credit · What happens: climb up, eat, poke, dry, see, hope · To what, where: nearest tree, fruit, nose, dried leaves, serpent

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, credit), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	nsubj
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 climbed	advmod
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tree	amod
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ate	cc
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 fruit	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 most	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 tired	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rabbit	det
20	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tired	obl:unmarked
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ate	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 tired	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 death	case
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tired	obl
25	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 death	acl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poking	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 heap	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 heap	det
30	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poking	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 leaves	case
32	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 leaves	amod
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heap	nmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 leaves	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hoping	punct
37	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ate	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 find	mark
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 hoping	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 serpent	det
41	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 find	obj
42	among	among	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the monkey	the nearest tree	quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	eat	past	the monkey not said here	fruit most of the day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	poke	gerund	death not said here	credit's nose	into every heap of dried leaves	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent nose=Instrument into heap=Patient
4	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	see	past	credit	dried leaves not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=Stimulus
6	hope	gerund	the monkey not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	a serpent	among serpents = serpent	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic

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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