The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 68

The monkey spoke in such a calm, indifferent way that the shark was quite deceived, and began to wish he had not been in such a hurry.

Who acts: monkey, heart · What happens: speak, deceive, begin, wish, have, not be · To what, where: calm indifferent way, shark, hurry · Speech: someone speaks here

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, heart), 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 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 way	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calm	punct
9	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 deceived	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shark	det
13	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deceived	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 deceived	aux:pass
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 deceived	advmod
16	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 way	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wish	mark
21	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wish	ccomp
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hurry	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 hurry	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 hurry	case
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 hurry	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hurry	det
29	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the monkey		such calm indifferent way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	deceive	past · passive		the shark		tree rules
3	begin	past	the monkey not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wish	to-infinitive	the monkey not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have	past	heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not is	participle			such hurry	tree rules

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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