The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 80
At last they were only one day’s march from Wali Dâd’s little mud home.
Who acts: executioners · What happens: be · To what, where: last march, little mud
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 (executioners), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 march | amod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 march | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 march | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 march | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 day | case |
| 9 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mud | case |
| 11 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Dâd | compound |
| 12 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mud | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Dâd | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mud | amod |
| 15 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 march | nmod |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 mud | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 march | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | executioners = executioner | one day's last march | Wali Dâd's little mud | day | tree rules |
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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