The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 72

Now the monkey was as fond of oranges as any of the birds, and when he saw a man standing in the tree where the largest and sweetest oranges grew, he spoke to him at once.

Who acts: monkey, bird, man, largest oranges · What happens: be, see, stand, grow, speak · To what, where: man, tree · 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, bird, man, largest 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fond	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 fond	case
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 oranges	case
8	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 any	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 oranges	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 birds	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 any	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 man	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 grew	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 oranges	det
27	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 oranges	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sweetest	cc
29	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 largest	conj
30	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tree	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spoke	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spoke	nsubj
34	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spoke	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 spoke	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monkey				now	of oranges as any; fond property	tree rules
2	see	past	bird	a man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	a man not said here			the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
4	grow	past	the largest oranges						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past	bird		man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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