The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 105

Then the baboon seized a stick, and poked it in the cleft of the rock, exclaiming, ‘Well, then, I should like to see your children!’

Who acts: baboon, I · What happens: seize, poke, exclaim, like, see · To what, where: stick, baboon, cleft, children

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baboon, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seized	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 baboon	det
3	baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 poked	cc
9	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 poked	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cleft	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cleft	det
13	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poked	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleft	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 exclaiming	punct
18	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 poked	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
21	Well	well	INTJ	_	27 like	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Well	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 like	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 then	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 like	aux
27	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 exclaiming	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 like	xcomp
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 children	nmod:poss
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seize	past	the baboon	a stick		then	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	poke	past	the baboon not said here	baboon	the cleft of the rock		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	gerund	the baboon not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	like	should	I			then	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	your children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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