The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 36

The puma understood that it was useless trying to make the monkey do as he wished, so he chose a shallow place and began to swim across.

Who acts: puma, trying, monkey · What happens: understand, be, try, make, do, wish · To what, where: monkey, shallow place

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 (puma, trying, monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:3340): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 puma	det
2	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 useless	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 useless	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	cop
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 understood	ccomp
8	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 useless	csubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trying	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 wished	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chose	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 chose	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 chose	nsubj
20	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
22	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 place	amod
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chose	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chose	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 swim	mark
27	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	across	across	ADV	_	27 swim	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the puma			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	trying		useless property	tree rules
3	try	gerund				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive		the monkey		tree rules
5	do not said to happen	infinitive	the monkey not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish	past	puma			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	choose	past	puma	a shallow place		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
8	begin	past	puma not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	swim	to-infinitive	puma not said here		across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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