The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 4

But the monkey made such piteous cries, and seemed so unhappy when anyone attempted to catch him, that the two ladies begged the King to leave him a little longer with them, to which he consented.

Who acts: monkey, anyone, two ladies · What happens: make, seem, attempt, catch, beg, leave · To what, where: such piteous cries, monkey, King

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, anyone, two ladies), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cries	amod
6	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cries	amod
7	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seemed	cc
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 unhappy	advmod
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	xcomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 attempted	advmod
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 attempted	nsubj
15	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 unhappy	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 catch	mark
17	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 attempted	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 catch	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begged	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 begged	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ladies	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 ladies	nummod
23	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 begged	nsubj
24	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 begged	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 leave	mark
28	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begged	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 leave	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 leave	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 longer	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 consented	punct
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 consented	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 consented	nsubj
39	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begged	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the monkey	such piteous cries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Product
2	seem	past				unhappy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	attempt	past	anyone				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	anyone not said here	monkey			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	the two ladies		the King		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
6	leave	to-infinitive	the two ladies not said here	monkey		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	consent	past	monkey				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=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 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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