The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 113
This was what happened to the barber, whom the monkey visited one morning, saying that he wished to be shaved.
Who acts: This, monkey · What happens: be, happen, visit, say, wish, shave · To what, where: barber · 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 (This, monkey), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 barber | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 barber | det |
| 7 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 visited | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 visited | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monkey | det |
| 11 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visited | nsubj |
| 12 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barber | acl:relcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 morning | nummod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 wished | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wished | nsubj |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 shaved | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shaved | aux:pass |
| 22 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | to the barber | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | visit | past | the monkey | the barber | morning | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | wish | past | Monkey | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shave not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Monkey not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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