The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 35

At first he could not think what to do with them, but, after a little, a brilliant idea struck him!

Who acts: man, brilliant idea · What happens: not think, do, strike · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, brilliant idea), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 think	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 little	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 struck	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 little	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
20	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 idea	amod
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	nsubj
22	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 struck	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	could	man			first property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive				with horses = horse	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	strike	past	a brilliant idea	man	after a little		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

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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