The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 22
Great was the perplexity of the good man to find a camel-load of silks tumbled at his door!
What happens: be, find, tumble · To what, where: Great perplexity, camel load, silks, door
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: 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 perplexity | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perplexity | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 perplexity | det |
| 4 | perplexity | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perplexity | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 load | det |
| 12 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 load | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 camel | punct |
| 14 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 silks | case |
| 16 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 load | nmod |
| 17 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 silks | acl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 door | nmod:poss |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tumbled | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 perplexity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great perplexity | of the good man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a camel load of silks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tumble | participle | silks not said here | Wali's door | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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