The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 23

The branches of the tree itself were laden with fruit, and every day at sunrise a big grey monkey might have been seen sitting in the topmost branches having his breakfast, and chattering to himself with delight.

Who acts: big grey monkey, topmost branches · What happens: lade, see, sit, have, chatter · To what, where: branches, big grey monkey, topmost branches, breakfast, tide

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big grey monkey, topmost branches), 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 branches	det
2	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laden	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 branches	nmod
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	5 tree	nmod:unmarked
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laden	aux:pass
8	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laden	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	obl:unmarked
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 sunrise	case
16	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	nmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 monkey	amod
19	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 monkey	amod
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	nsubj:pass
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 seen	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 laden	conj
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 seen	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 branches	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
28	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 branches	amod
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sitting	obl
30	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 branches	acl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 breakfast	nmod:poss
32	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 having	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 chattering	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 chattering	cc
35	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 sitting	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 chattering	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 delight	case
39	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 chattering	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lade	past · passive		the branches of the tree tree				with fruit	tree rules
2	see	might · perfect · passive		a big grey monkey			day		tree rules
3	sit	gerund	a big grey monkey not said here			the topmost branches			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location
4	have	gerund	the topmost branches not said here	tide's breakfast					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
5	chatter	gerund	a big grey monkey not said here		tide			with delight	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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