The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 58

But the monkey, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, waited until the puma drew near, and with a violent kick upset the bowl all over the puma himself.

Who acts: monkey, puma · What happens: watch out, wait, draw, upset · To what, where: corner, bowl, puma

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 waited	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waited	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watching	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 watching	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 watching	aux
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 monkey	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 corner	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watching	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 eye	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eye	nmod:poss
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 corner	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monkey	punct
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 drew	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 puma	det
20	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	nsubj
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 waited	advcl
22	near	near	ADV	_	21 drew	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 upset	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 upset	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 kick	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 kick	det
27	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kick	amod
28	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 upset	obl
29	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 waited	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bowl	det
31	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 upset	obj
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 puma	advmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 puma	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 puma	det
35	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 upset	obl
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 upset	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch out	past · perfect · progressive	the monkey	the corner of puma's eye			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme
2	wait	past	the monkey				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	past	the puma			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	upset	past	the monkey not said here	the bowl	the puma	with a violent kick; puma obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bowl=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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