The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 103
The stag was quite punctual, and as soon as the sun’s rays struck the trunk of the tree the stag started off, and was soon far out of the sight of the tortoise.
Who acts: stag, rays, sun · What happens: be, strike, start off, ray · To what, where: trunk, tree, sight
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 (stag, rays, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 punctual | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 punctual | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 punctual | advmod |
| 5 | punctual | punctual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 struck | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 struck | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rays | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 sun | case |
| 14 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 punctual | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trunk | det |
| 17 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trunk | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stag | det |
| 22 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 started | nsubj |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | acl:relcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 started | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sight | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sight | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sight | cop |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 far | advmod |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 sight | advmod |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sight | det |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tortoise | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tortoise | det |
| 36 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sight | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 punctual | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stag | punctual property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the sun's rays | the trunk of the tree | soon property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | |||
| 3 | start off | past | the stag | the tree not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sight | of the tortoise; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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