The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 35

And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.

Who acts: monkey, shark · What happens: grow, pick, be, eat · To what, where: kuyu, sharks

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, shark), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 picking	mark
7	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kuyu	det
9	kuyu	kuyu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 picking	obj
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 picking	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 tired	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shark	det
13	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tired	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tired	cop
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 picking	advcl
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 eating	mark
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tired	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eating	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the monkey		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick	gerund	the monkey not said here	the kuyu	long property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kuyu=Patient
3	is	past	the shark		tired property	tree rules
4	eat	gerund	the shark not said here	sharks = shark		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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