The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 63
Then the monkey got up and went to the dairy, and drank all the milk he could find.
Who acts: monkey, puma · What happens: get up, go, drink, find · To what, where: dairy, milk
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dairy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dairy | det |
| 10 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drank | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drank | cc |
| 13 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 milk | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 milk | det |
| 16 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drank | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 milk | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the monkey | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the monkey not said here | the dairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dairy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | the monkey not said here | all milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | could | puma | all milk not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Topic |
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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