The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 78
Day after day they moved on, and every day the poor merchant felt more ill and miserable.
Who acts: Day, poor merchant · What happens: move on, feel
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 (Day, poor merchant), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 moved | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 merchant | amod |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 ill | advmod |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 miserable | cc |
| 18 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ill | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move on | past | Day after day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | the poor merchant | day | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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