The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 70
Soon after this adventure the monkey went away into another part of the country, right on the outskirts of the forest, where there was a beautiful garden full of oranges hanging ripe from the trees.
Who acts: monkey, outskirts, oranges · What happens: go away, be, hang · To what, where: part, beautiful garden
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, outskirts, oranges), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 adventure | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 adventure | det |
| 4 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 outskirts | punct |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 outskirts | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 outskirts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 outskirts | det |
| 19 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 garden | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 garden | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 was | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 garden | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 garden | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 garden | amod |
| 29 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 garden | amod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 oranges | case |
| 32 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 full | obl |
| 33 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 oranges | acl |
| 34 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hanging | xcomp |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 trees | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 trees | det |
| 37 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ripe | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the monkey | another part of the country | after this adventure | away, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the outskirts | a beautiful garden | of the forest | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hang | gerund | oranges not said here | ripe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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