The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7
So the monkey was caught and put into the chest, and some of the prince’s servants took it down to the river and pushed it off into the water.
Who acts: some · What happens: catch, put, take down, push off · To what, where: monkey, chest, water
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 (some), 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 | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 caught | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 chest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 took | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 servants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 servants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 prince | case |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pushed | cc |
| 26 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pushed | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 pushed | compound:prt |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pushed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | the monkey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | the chest | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take down | past | some | monkey | to the river | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | push off | past | some not said here | monkey | the water | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into water=Destination |
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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