The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 31
The monkey knew that the puma was not so good-natured for nothing, but he felt quite able to take care of himself, so he said he should have much pleasure in accompanying his friend.
Who acts: monkey, puma, much pleasure · What happens: know, not be, feel, take, say, have · To what, where: care, much pleasure, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, puma, much pleasure), 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 | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 natured | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 puma | det |
| 6 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 natured | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 natured | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 natured | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 natured | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 natured | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 12 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 natured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 able | advmod |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 take | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | conj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 pleasure | amod |
| 34 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 accompanying | mark |
| 36 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 pleasure | acl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 friend | nmod:poss |
| 38 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 accompanying | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the monkey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the puma | for nothing; natured property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | puma | able property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | puma not said here | care | of puma | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of himself=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | puma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have | should | puma | much pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 7 | accompany | gerund | much pleasure not said here | puma's friend | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/37/31/