The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 38
For weeks the monkey and the shark breakfasted together, and it was a wonder that the tree had any fruit left for them.
Who acts: monkey, tree · What happens: breakfast, be, have, leave · To what, where: monkey, wonder, fruit
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, tree), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 weeks | case |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breakfasted | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkey | det |
| 4 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breakfasted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shark | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shark | det |
| 7 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monkey | conj |
| 8 | breakfasted | breakfast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 breakfasted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wonder | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wonder | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wonder | det |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breakfasted | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 fruit | det |
| 21 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fruit | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 breakfasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breakfast | participle · passive | the monkey and the shark | week | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | monkey | a wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the tree | any fruit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | any fruit not said here | for sharks = shark | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for they=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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