The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 100

“But I should like three days for training; then I shall be ready to start when the sun strikes on the big tree at the edge of the great clearing.”

Who acts: tortoise, sun · What happens: like, be, start, strike · To what, where: big tree

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortoise, sun), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 like	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 training	case
9	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 days	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ready	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 ready	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ready	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 like	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 start	mark
17	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 strikes	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strikes	nsubj
21	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 start	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tree	amod
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strikes	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 edge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 edge	det
28	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 clearing	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 clearing	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 clearing	amod
32	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 edge	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	should	the tortoise = tortoise		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	shall	the tortoise = tortoise		then	ready property	tree rules
3	start in a quote	to-infinitive	the tortoise = tortoise not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	strike in a quote	present	the sun	the big tree at the edge of the great clearing			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

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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