The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 98
Then the monkey cried, ‘Come, my baby, climb on my back and let us go.
Who acts: monkey, us · What happens: cry, come, climb, let, go · To what, where: back, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, us), 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 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 7 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 baby | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 baby | nmod:poss |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Come | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climb | punct |
| 12 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Come | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climb | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Come | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the monkey | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | my baby vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | climb | infinitive | my back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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