The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 21
Some months later he got home again from his journeyings, and proceeded to take Wali Dâd the princess’s present.
Who acts: Wali · What happens: get, proceed, take, journey · To what, where: journeyings, Wali
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 months | det |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 journeyings | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journeyings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journeyings | journeying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proceeded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 proceeded | cc |
| 13 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proceeded | xcomp |
| 16 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wali | flat |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 present | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Wali | Wali's journeyings | again | home, late property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from journeying=Destination | ||
| 2 | proceed | past | Wali not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Wali not said here | Wali | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wali=Theme present=Destination | ||||
| 4 | journey | Wali | nom journeying «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/21/