The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 104

Every now and then he would turn his head as he ran, and call out: “How are you getting on?” and the tortoise who happened to be nearest at that moment would answer: “All right, I am close up to you.”

Who acts: stag, you, tortoise, I · What happens: turn, run, call out, get on, happen, be · To what, where: head, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, tortoise, I), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 turn	det
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 ran	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 call	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 call	cc
15	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 call	compound:prt
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
19	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 getting	advmod
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 getting	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 getting	nsubj
22	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 call	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 getting	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 answer	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tortoise	det
28	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 answer	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 happened	nsubj
30	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tortoise	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 nearest	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 nearest	cop
33	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 happened	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 moment	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nearest	obl
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 answer	aux
38	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 getting	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 right	punct
41	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 right	det
42	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 call	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 close	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 close	nsubj
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 close	aux
46	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 right	parataxis
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 close	compound:prt
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 you	case
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 close	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 call	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	stag	stag's head		now; then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	run	past	stag					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: ask	infinitive						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get on in a quote	present · progressive	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	happen	past	the tortoise					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here			moment	near property	tree rules
7	answer speech: assert	would	the tortoise					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	close up in a quote	present	I		you			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient

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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