The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 79
The monkey awoke with a start, but did not answer.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: awake, not answer
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 start | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 start | det |
| 6 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 answer | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 answer | advmod |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 awoke | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the monkey | with a start | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with start=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | the monkey not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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