The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 32
They are sure to want quantities of grass, and I shall sell all I have without having to drag it to market.”
Who acts: horses, I · What happens: be, want, sell, have, drag · To what, where: quantities, all, grass, market
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 (horses, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 want | mark |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | xcomp |
| 6 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quantities | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sell | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sell | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sell | aux |
| 13 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sell | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 having | mark |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sell | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 drag | mark |
| 20 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 having | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drag | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 market | case |
| 23 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drag | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | horses = horse | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | quantities of grass | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot quantity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sell | shall | I | all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | drag | to-infinitive | I not said here | grass | market | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to market=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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