The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 92
He drew back shuddering, and covering his face in his hands he wept aloud.
Who acts: Wali · What happens: draw back, shudder, cover, weep · To what, where: face
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 drew | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wept | cc |
| 7 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 wept | csubj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covering | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covering | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wept | nsubj |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 15 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 14 wept | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | Wali | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shudder | gerund | Wali not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cover | gerund | Wali's face | in Wali's hands | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination in hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | Wali | aloud property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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