The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 32
However, the second time the monkey had better luck, and the fruit fell right in.
Who acts: monkey, fruit · What happens: have, fall · To what, where: better luck
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 (monkey, fruit), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkey | det |
| 7 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 luck | amod |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fruit | det |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 in | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 fell | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the monkey | better luck | time | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||
| 2 | fall | past | the fruit | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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