The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 69
The monkey gave a shriek of pain, and darted up into a tree, but when he saw that it was only the rabbit who had dared to insult him so, he chattered so fast in his anger, and looked so fierce, that the rabbit fled into the nearest hole, and stayed there for several days, trembling with fright.
Who acts: monkey, Jack, shriek, rabbit · What happens: give, dart up, see, be, dare, insult · To what, where: shriek, tree, rabbit, Jack, anger, nearest hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Jack, shriek, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shriek | det |
| 5 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pain | case |
| 7 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shriek | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 darted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 darted | cc |
| 10 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 darted | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 darted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 rabbit | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rabbit | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rabbit | cop |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 rabbit | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rabbit | det |
| 25 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 dared | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dared | aux |
| 28 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 insult | mark |
| 30 | insult | insult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dared | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 insult | obj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 insult | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 chattered | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 chattered | nsubj |
| 35 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 fast | advmod |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 chattered | advmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 anger | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 anger | nmod:poss |
| 40 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chattered | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 looked | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 looked | cc |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 fierce | advmod |
| 45 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 looked | xcomp |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 fled | punct |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 fled | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 rabbit | det |
| 49 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fled | nsubj |
| 50 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 looked | conj |
| 51 | into | into | ADP | _ | 54 hole | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 hole | det |
| 53 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 54 hole | amod |
| 54 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fled | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 stayed | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 stayed | cc |
| 57 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 58 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 stayed | advmod |
| 59 | for | for | ADP | _ | 61 days | case |
| 60 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 days | amod |
| 61 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 stayed | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 trembling | punct |
| 63 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 stayed | advcl |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 65 fright | case |
| 65 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 trembling | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the monkey | a shriek of pain | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dart up | past | the monkey not said here | a tree | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | shriek | the rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dare | past · perfect | the rabbit | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | insult | to-infinitive | the rabbit not said here | Jack | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | chatter | past | Jack | Jack's anger | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Location | |||
| 8 | look | past | fierce property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | flee | past | the rabbit | the nearest hole | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | stay | past | the monkey not said here | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 11 | tremble | gerund | the monkey not said here | with fright | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 12 | shriek | pain | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 13 | anger | Jack | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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