The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 66
Then the monkey, who had been watching him, fell down and pulled his ears, to the rage of the rabbit, who vowed vengeance.
Who acts: monkey, rabbit · What happens: watch, fall down, pull, vow, rage · To what, where: credit, ears, rage, vengeance
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, rabbit), 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 | 11 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watching | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watching | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 watching | aux |
| 8 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pulled | cc |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fell | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pulled | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rage | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rage | det |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pulled | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rabbit | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rabbit | det |
| 23 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rage | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vowed | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 vowed | nsubj |
| 26 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 27 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 vowed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect · progressive | the monkey | credit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | the monkey | then | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull | past | the monkey not said here | credit's ears | the rage of the rabbit | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to rage=Destination | |||
| 4 | vow | past | the rabbit | vengeance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rage | the rabbit | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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