The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 16
Time passed by, and at length the merchant arrived in the course of his travels at the capital of Khaistan.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: pass by, arrive, travel · To what, where: length, capital
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 (merchant), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 passed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | cc |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 course | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 course | det |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 travels | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 travels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 course | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 capital | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 capital | det |
| 19 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travels | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Khaistan | case |
| 21 | Khaistan | Khaistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 capital | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the merchant | length | in the course | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | travel | present | the merchant not said here | the capital of Khaistan | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at capital=Trajectory |
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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