The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 8
At last he threw all the money into an old sack, which he pushed under his bead, and then, rolled in his ragged old blanket, he went off to sleep.
Who acts: man, old sack · What happens: throw, push, roll, go off, sleep · To what, where: money, last, bead, ragged old blanket
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, old sack), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 money | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 money | det |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sack | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sack | amod |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pushed | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pushed | nsubj |
| 15 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sack | acl:relcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 bead | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bead | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bead | bead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pushed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rolled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rolled | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 rolled | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rolled | punct |
| 23 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 blanket | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 blanket | amod |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 blanket | amod |
| 28 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rolled | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 went | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 went | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | man | all money | last | into a old sack result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer money=Theme into sack=Result | ||
| 2 | push | past | a old sack | man's bead | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent under bead=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | roll | past | man not said here | man's ragged old blanket | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blanket=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | go off | past | man | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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