The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 82

Not knowing what he did, the monkey hit out, first with one hand and then with the other, and when he found that he was literally bound hand and foot, he became so mad with anger and terror that in his struggles he fell to the ground, dragging the figure after him.

Who acts: breeze, monkey · What happens: not know, do, hit out, find, be, become · To what, where: bound hand, anger, struggles, 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 (breeze, monkey), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 hit	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 first	punct
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 hit	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hand	nummod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 other	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 other	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hit	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 found	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 hand	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hand	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hand	cop
29	literally	literally	ADV	_	30 bound	advmod
30	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hand	amod
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 foot	cc
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hand	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 became	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 became	nsubj
36	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	conj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 mad	advmod
38	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 became	xcomp
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 anger	case
40	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mad	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 terror	cc
42	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 anger	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 fell	obl:unmarked
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 struggles	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 struggles	nmod:poss
46	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fell	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fell	nsubj
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 anger	acl:relcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 ground	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 ground	det
51	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fell	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 dragging	punct
53	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 fell	advcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 figure	det
55	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dragging	obj
56	after	after	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 dragging	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	breeze not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past	breeze					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	hit out	past	the monkey				with one hand; first property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with hand=Instrument
4	find	past	breeze					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	breeze	bound hand and foot				tree rules
6	become	past	breeze				mad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	breeze	anger and terror	breeze's struggles		to the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in struggle=Location
8	drag	gerund	breeze not said here	the figure		after breeze		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
9	struggle		breeze					nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=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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