The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 51

After a few minutes--for at first he felt a little frightened at his strange position--the monkey began to enjoy himself vastly, and asked the shark a thousand questions about the fish and the sea-weeds and the oddly-shaped things that floated past them, and as the shark always gave him some sort of answer, the monkey never guessed that many of the objects they saw were as new to his guide as to himself.

Who acts: friend, monkey, shaped things, sharks, many · What happens: feel, frighten, begin, enjoy, ask, shape · To what, where: little, strange position, friend, shark, sort, objects

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 (friend, monkey, shaped things, sharks), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 felt	obl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 minutes	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 first	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 felt	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 little	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 frightened	obl:unmarked
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 felt	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 position	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 position	nmod:poss
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 position	amod
17	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 frightened	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 enjoy	mark
23	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 enjoy	obj
25	vastly	vastly	ADV	_	23 enjoy	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shark	det
30	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thousand	det
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 questions	nummod
33	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asked	obj
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 fish	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fish	det
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 questions	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 weeds	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 weeds	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 weeds	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 sea	punct
41	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fish	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 things	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 things	det
44	oddly	oddly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 shaped	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 oddly	punct
46	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 things	amod
47	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 weeds	conj
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 floated	nsubj
49	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 things	acl:relcl
50	past	past	ADP	_	51 them	case
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 floated	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 gave	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 gave	cc
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 shark	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 shark	det
56	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 gave	obl
57	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	58 gave	advmod
58	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	parataxis
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 gave	iobj
60	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 sort	det
61	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 gave	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 answer	case
63	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sort	nmod
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 guessed	punct
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 monkey	det
66	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 guessed	nsubj
67	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	68 guessed	advmod
68	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 gave	conj
69	that	that	SCONJ	_	78 new	mark
70	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 new	nsubj
71	of	of	ADP	_	73 objects	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 objects	det
73	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 many	nmod
74	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 saw	nsubj
75	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 objects	acl:relcl
76	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	78 new	cop
77	as	as	ADP	_	78 new	case
78	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 guessed	advcl
79	to	to	ADP	_	81 guide	case
80	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	81 guide	nmod:poss
81	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 new	obl
82	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	84 himself	case
83	to	to	ADP	_	82 as	fixed
84	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	81 guide	nmod
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	friend				minute		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	frighten	participle	friend not said here	a little		friend's strange position			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	the monkey						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	enjoy	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here	friend				vastly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past	friend not said here	the shark					tree rules
6	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	float	past	the shaped things					past sharks = shark	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory
8	give	past		some sort of answer	friend			as the shark; always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sort=Theme
9	not guess	past	the monkey						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	see	past	sharks = shark	the objects not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus
11	is	past	many of the objects					to friend's guide as friend; new property	tree rules
12	sort			answer					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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