The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 74

The wax figure took no notice of this request, so the monkey, who was easily made angry, picked up a stone, and flung it with all his force.

Who acts: wax figure · What happens: take, make, pick up, fling, notice · To what, where: notice, monkey, figure, request

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 (wax figure), 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	3 figure	det
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 figure	compound
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 notice	det
6	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 request	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 request	det
9	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 notice	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	21 picked	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monkey	det
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picked	nsubj:pass
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
17	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 monkey	acl:relcl
19	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picked	punct
21	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 picked	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stone	det
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flung	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flung	cc
27	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flung	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 force	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 force	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 force	nmod:poss
32	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flung	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the wax figure	no notice of this request		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
2	make	past · passive		the monkey	angry, easily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	pick up	participle · passive		the monkey		tree rules
4	fling	past	the wax figure not said here	figure	with man's force	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	notice			this request		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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