The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 79

Seeing that the man was quite indifferent to stones, the monkey grew more angry still, and climbing the tree hastily, gave the figure a violent kick.

Who acts: monkey, man · What happens: see, be, grow, climb, give · To what, where: tree, figure · 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, man), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 grew	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 indifferent	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 indifferent	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 indifferent	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 indifferent	advmod
7	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Seeing	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 stones	case
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 indifferent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 angry	advmod
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
16	still	still	ADV	_	15 angry	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
19	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 gave	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 climbing	obj
22	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	19 climbing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 climbing	punct
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 figure	det
26	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 kick	det
28	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kick	amod
29	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the monkey not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the man		to stones; indifferent property	tree rules
3	grow	past	the monkey		angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	climb	gerund		the tree	hastily property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	give	past	the monkey not said here	the figure		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent figure=Recipient kick=Theme

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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