The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 24

After he had eaten all the fruit on the town side of the tree the monkey swung himself along the branches to the part which hung over the water.

Who acts: tide, monkey, part · What happens: eat, swing, hang · To what, where: fruit, town side, tide, branches, water

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 (tide, monkey, part), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fruit	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	compound
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 monkey	det
16	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swung	nsubj
17	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tree	acl:relcl
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 swung	obj
19	along	along	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swung	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 part	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 part	det
24	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swung	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hung	nsubj
26	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 part	acl:relcl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	tide	all fruit	the town side of the tree		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	swing	past	the monkey	tide	the branches	to the part	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme along branch=Source to part=Trajectory
3	hang	past	the part		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location

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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