The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 61

The monkey did not answer, but silently pointed to the puma who was pretending to be asleep.

Who acts: monkey, puma · What happens: not answer, point, pretend, be · To what, where: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pointed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 pointed	cc
8	silently	silently	ADV	_	9 pointed	advmod
9	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answer	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 puma	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 puma	det
12	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointed	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 pretending	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pretending	aux
15	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 puma	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 asleep	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 asleep	cop
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pretending	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the monkey			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	point	participle		the puma	silently property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to puma=Recipient
3	pretend	past · progressive	the puma			tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the puma not said here		asleep property	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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