The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 55

So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him.

Who acts: guests, monkey, one · What happens: stop, talk, sling, take, get · To what, where: hammocks, care, place

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 (guests, monkey, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 slung	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 stopping	mark
4	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 slung	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopping	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopping	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guests	det
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slung	nsubj
10	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hammocks	nmod:poss
12	hammocks	hammock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slung	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 monkey	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 monkey	det
15	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hammocks	appos
16	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 monkey	acl
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 place	case
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 high	nmod:poss
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 high	advmod
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slung	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 high	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 slung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund	the guests not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	the guests not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sling	past	the guests	guests's hammocks			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammock=Theme
4	take	gerund	the monkey not said here	care	place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent care=Theme to place=Destination
5	get	could	no one			at puma	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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