The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 76
At this moment a breeze shook the tree, and the orange on which the monkey had set his heart dropped from the bough.
Who acts: breeze, orange · What happens: shake, set, drop · To what, where: tree, monkey, orange, bough
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 (breeze, orange), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 breeze | det |
| 5 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | nsubj |
| 6 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dropped | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 orange | det |
| 12 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 set | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monkey | det |
| 16 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 orange | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obj |
| 21 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shook | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bough | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bough | det |
| 24 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dropped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | a breeze | the tree | moment | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 2 | set | past · perfect · passive | the monkey | the orange | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | the orange | the bough | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from bough=Trajectory |
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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