The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 30
As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dâd’s house with the twelve horses.
Who acts: Wali · What happens: arrive, set out · To what, where: merchant, home
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 before | case |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 set | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 before | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 before | nsubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 merchant | nmod |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 merchant | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 20 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wali | flat |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Wali | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 horses | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horses | det |
| 26 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 horses | nummod |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | the merchant at last not said here | home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Wali | day | for Wali's house; with the twelve horses; before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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