The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 37

The monkey waited till the puma had got to the middle, then he gave a great spring and jumped on his back, knowing quite well that the puma would be afraid to shake him off, lest he should be swept away into deep water.

Who acts: monkey, puma · What happens: wait, get, give, jump, know, be · To what, where: back, puma, deep water

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), 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 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 got	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 puma	det
6	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 waited	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 gave	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spring	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spring	amod
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 jumped	cc
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knowing	punct
25	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 jumped	advcl
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 knowing	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 afraid	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 puma	det
30	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 afraid	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 afraid	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 afraid	cop
33	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knowing	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 shake	mark
35	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 afraid	xcomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 shake	obj
37	off	off	ADP	_	35 shake	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 swept	punct
39	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	43 swept	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 swept	nsubj
41	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 swept	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 swept	aux:pass
43	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 shake	advcl
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 swept	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 water	case
46	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 water	amod
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 swept	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the monkey					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past · perfect	the puma				to the middle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result
3	give	past	puma			then; spring		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	jump	past	puma not said here		puma's back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
5	know	gerund	puma not said here				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	would	the puma				afraid property	tree rules
7	shake off	to-infinitive	the puma not said here	puma				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	sweep away	should · passive		puma	deep water		away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into water=Destination

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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