The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 67
It was not easy to catch the monkey off his guard, and the rabbit waited long before an opportunity arrived.
Who acts: rabbit, opportunity · What happens: not be, catch, wait, arrive · To what, where: monkey
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 (rabbit, opportunity), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 easy | advmod |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monkey | det |
| 8 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 guard | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waited | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rabbit | det |
| 15 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | nsubj |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 waited | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 arrived | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 opportunity | det |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | nsubj |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 waited | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | the monkey | off credit's guard | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the rabbit | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | a opportunity | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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