The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 12

As he stood wondering, like a man in a dream, the other peri waved her hand and bade him turn and see; and, lo! before him a noble gateway stood open.

Who acts: Wali, other peri, hand, noble gateway · What happens: stand, wonder, wave, turn, see

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 (Wali, other peri, hand, noble gateway), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waved	advcl
4	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wondering	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dream	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dream	det
11	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peri	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 peri	amod
15	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waved	nsubj
16	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turn	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bade	cc
20	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hand	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bade	obj
22	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 waved	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 turn	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 stood	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lo	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	lo	lo	INTJ	_	35 stood	discourse
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 lo	punct
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lo	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 gateway	det
33	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 gateway	amod
34	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stood	nsubj
35	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waved	conj
36	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stood	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Wali		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Wali not said here	like a man in a dream	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	wave	past	the other peri		tree rules
4	turn	present	peri's hand and bade		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	see	present	peri's hand and bade not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	stand	past	a noble gateway	open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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