The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 48
“Very well,” replied the monkey; but, instead, he nodded and smiled, and said: “I hope your industry may be rewarded as it deserves.”
Who acts: monkey, puma, I, industry · What happens: reply, nod, smile, say, hope, reward · To what, where: industry · 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 (monkey, puma, I, industry), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monkey | det |
| 8 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodded | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 nodded | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 but | punct |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 15 nodded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 instead | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nodded | nsubj |
| 15 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smiled | cc |
| 17 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nodded | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 hope | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hope | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 hope | nsubj |
| 24 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 industry | nmod:poss |
| 26 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 rewarded | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 29 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hope | ccomp |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 deserves | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 deserves | nsubj |
| 32 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 rewarded | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the monkey | well property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | puma | instead property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | puma not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | hope in a quote | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | reward in a quote | may · passive | your industry | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | deserve in a quote | present | industry | tree rules |
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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