The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 41
The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels, and the monkey as he listened grew more and more gloomy.
Who acts: shark, friend, monkey · What happens: perceive, describe, listen, grow · To what, where: this, greater marvels, monkey
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 (shark, friend, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 perceived | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 clearly | advmod |
| 6 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 described | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 described | cc |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | parataxis |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 marvels | amod |
| 11 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 described | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 listened | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 listened | nsubj |
| 18 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 monkey | acl |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | parataxis |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 grew | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gloomy | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 gloomy | advmod |
| 23 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the shark | this | clearly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | describe | past | greater marvels | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent marvel=Theme | |||||
| 3 | listen | past | friend | the monkey not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the monkey | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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