The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 38

Prince Mannikin agreed willingly, and then the little monkey sprang from his shoulder to the nearest tree, and began to run through the wood from branch to branch, crying, ‘Follow me.’

Who acts: Mannikin, little monkey · What happens: agree, spring, begin, run, cry, follow · To what, where: little monkey, shoulder, wood, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Mannikin, little 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mannikin	nmod:desc
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	3 agreed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 monkey	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 monkey	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 monkey	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkey	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 monkey	amod
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	obl
11	sprang	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 monkey	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 shoulder	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shoulder	nmod:poss
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 run	mark
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 wood	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 branch	case
28	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 branch	case
30	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crying	punct
32	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 began	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Follow	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Follow	punct
35	Follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 crying	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 Follow	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Mannikin Prince	the little monkey		willingly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring	gerund	the little monkey not said here		monkey's shoulder	to the nearest tree	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run	to-infinitive			the wood	from branch; to branch	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through wood=Initial_Location from branch=Trajectory to branch=Destination
5	cry speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	follow	infinitive		me			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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