The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 109
But the tortoise was not the only creature of whose tricks stories were told in the forest.
Who acts: tortoise, tricks, only creature · What happens: not be, tell, trick · To what, where: only creature, stories, forest · 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 (tortoise, tricks, only creature), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 creature | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tortoise | det |
| 3 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creature | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 creature | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 creature | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tricks | case |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 creature | nmod |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the tortoise | the only creature | of the only creature's tricks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the only creature's tricks not said here | stories | the forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | trick | the only creature | nom trick «act 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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