The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 102
This done to his satisfaction, he went back to the starting place.
Who acts: sun · What happens: do, go back, satisfy · To what, where: This
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 (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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 satisfaction | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 satisfaction | nmod:poss |
| 5 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 done | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 done | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | to sun's satisfaction | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | sun | to the starting place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | sun | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=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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