The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 50

So it was arranged, and directly after breakfast next morning the shark swam close up under the tree and the monkey dropped neatly on his back, without even a splash.

Who acts: shark, monkey · What happens: arrange, swim, close up, drop · To what, where: drop, tree, back

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 arranged	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arranged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arranged	aux:pass
4	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swam	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swam	cc
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	14 swam	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 morning	case
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 morning	compound
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 morning	amod
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swam	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shark	det
13	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swam	nsubj
14	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arranged	parataxis
15	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 swam	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 close	compound:prt
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dropped	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 monkey	det
22	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dropped	nsubj
23	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 swam	conj
24	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	23 dropped	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dropped	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 splash	punct
29	without	without	ADP	_	32 splash	case
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 splash	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 splash	det
32	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dropped	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · passive		drop				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	swim	past	the shark			morning	directly property	tree rules
3	close up	infinitive	the shark not said here		the tree			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	drop	past	the monkey		friend's back		neatly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

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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