The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 74
With a sigh of relief the monkey caught hold of the nearest branch and swung himself up.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: catch, swing up, sigh, hold · To what, where: hold, heart, relief, nearest branch
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 relief | case |
| 5 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sigh | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkey | det |
| 7 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 branch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 branch | det |
| 12 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 branch | amod |
| 13 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swung | cc |
| 15 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 swung | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 swung | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the monkey | hold of the nearest branch | with a sigh of relief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | swing up | past | the monkey not said here | heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sigh | relief | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | hold | the nearest branch | nom hold «act 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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