The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 101
The monkey took it very daintily and finally came to the table.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: take, come · To what, where: food, table
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 daintily | advmod |
| 6 | daintily | daintily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the monkey | food | daintily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the monkey not said here | the table | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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