The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 43

“Very well,” answered the monkey, swinging himself up; but he ate all the yellow ones himself, and only threw down the green ones that were left.

Who acts: monkey, puma · What happens: answer, swing up, eat, throw down, leave · To what, where: puma, yellow ones, green ones

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swinging	punct
10	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 swinging	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 swinging	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 ate	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ate	nsubj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 ones	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ones	det
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ones	amod
20	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ate	obj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 ones	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 threw	advmod
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ate	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 threw	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ones	det
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 threw	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ones	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the monkey		well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swing up	gerund	the monkey not said here	puma		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	eat	past	puma	all yellow ones puma		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	throw down	past	puma not said here	the green ones		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	leave	past · passive		the green ones		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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