The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 107
And the stag ran, and ran, and ran, till he could run no more, and dropped down dead on the grass.
Who acts: stag · What happens: run, drop down · To what, where: more, grass
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stag | det |
| 3 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ran | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 run | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dropped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dropped | cc |
| 20 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 dropped | compound:prt |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dropped | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 grass | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grass | det |
| 25 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dropped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the stag | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | the stag not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | the stag not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | could | stag | more | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | drop down | participle | the grass | dead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory |
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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