The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 14
With that he pulled the bracelet from his waistband, and handed it to his friend.
Who acts: Wali · What happens: pull, hand · To what, where: bracelet, waistband, friend
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (Wali), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pulled | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bracelet | det |
| 6 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 waistband | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 waistband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | waistband | waistband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 handed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 handed | cc |
| 12 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 handed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 handed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Wali | the bracelet | Wali's waistband | with that | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme from waistband=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hand | past | Wali not said here | bracelet | Wali's friend | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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