The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 39

The banana grove was not far distant, and here the puma thought he would pay the monkey out for forcing him to carry him over the river.

Who acts: banana grove, puma · What happens: not be, think, pay out, force, carry · To what, where: monkey, puma, river · 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 (banana grove, 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	3 grove	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grove	compound
3	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 distant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distant	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 distant	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 distant	advmod
7	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 thought	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 puma	det
12	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 distant	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pay	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pay	aux
16	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 monkey	det
18	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pay	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	16 pay	compound:prt
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 forcing	mark
21	forcing	force	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 pay	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forcing	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 carry	mark
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forcing	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carry	obj
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carry	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 distant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the banana grove			distant, far property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the puma		here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pay out	would	puma	the monkey			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Asset
4	force	gerund	puma not said here	puma			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	carry	to-infinitive	puma not said here	puma	the river		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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