The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 40
“Friend monkey, look what fine bananas,” cried he.
Who acts: Friend monkey, puma · What happens: look, cry · 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 (Friend 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monkey | compound |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 monkey | punct |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 look | obj |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bananas | amod |
| 8 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Friend monkey | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | puma | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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