The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 86

So, without stopping to ask any one’s advice, he went off in the middle of the night to a place where the river wound along at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height, and determined to throw himself down and put an end to his life.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: stop, ask, go off, throw down, put · To what, where: advice, middle, Wali, end

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 (Wali), 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	_	13 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 stopping	mark
4	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopping	xcomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 advice	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopping	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 went	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 wound	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wound	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wound	compound
27	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 place	nmod
28	along	along	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 base	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 base	det
31	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 cliffs	case
33	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cliffs	amod
34	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cliffs	amod
35	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 base	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 height	case
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 height	amod
38	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cliffs	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 determined	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 determined	cc
41	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 throw	mark
43	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 determined	xcomp
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 throw	obj
45	down	down	ADP	_	43 throw	compound:prt
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
47	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 throw	conj
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 end	det
49	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 life	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 life	nmod:poss
52	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund	Wali not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Wali not said here	any one's advice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
3	go off	past	Wali		the middle of the night	to a place the river wound; at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height; along property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location
4	throw down	to-infinitive	Wali not said here	Wali			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	put	infinitive	Wali not said here	a end		to Wali's life	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal

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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