The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 67
So, after a few days’ rest, the caravan started off once more for Khaistan.
Who acts: caravan · What happens: start off
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 (caravan), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 days | case |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rest | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 caravan | det |
| 11 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 started | compound:prt |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 started | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Khaistan | case |
| 17 | Khaistan | Khaistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the caravan | after a few days's rest | for Khaistan | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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