The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 40

By and bye the monkey became rather discontented with his green house in a grove of palms beyond the town, and longed to see the strange things under the sea which he had heard of from the shark.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: bye, become, discontent, long, see, hear · To what, where: strange things, sea

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), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 bye	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bye	cc
3	bye	bye	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bye	ccomp
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 discontented	advmod
8	discontented	discontent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discontented	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 grove	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grove	det
15	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 palms	case
17	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grove	nmod
18	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 palms	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 longed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 longed	cc
23	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 longed	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 things	det
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 things	amod
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 things	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 heard	nsubj:pass
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heard	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 heard	aux
35	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sea	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 shark	case
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 shark	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shark	det
39	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 heard	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bye	imperative					tree rules
2	become	past	the monkey				tree rules
3	discontent	participle	the monkey not said here			with friend's green house in a grove of palms beyond the town	tree rules
4	long	past	the monkey not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	the strange things	the sea		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
6	hear	past · perfect · passive		the sea		of the shark	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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