The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 112
Sometimes, however, the inhabitants of the forest were so foolish as to provoke him, and then they got the worst of it.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: be, provoke, get · To what, where: Monkey, worst
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 (inhabitants), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 foolish | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 foolish | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inhabitants | det |
| 6 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foolish | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabitants | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 foolish | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 foolish | advmod |
| 12 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 provoke | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 provoke | mark |
| 15 | provoke | provoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 foolish | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 provoke | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 got | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 foolish | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 worst | det |
| 23 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 got | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 worst | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the inhabitants of the forest | foolish, however, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | provoke | to-infinitive | the inhabitants of the forest not said here | Monkey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | the worst | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=Stimulus |
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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