The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 13
And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.
Who acts: avenue · What happens: lead · To what, where: Wali
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 (avenue), 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 | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 led | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 avenue | det |
| 4 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trees | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | compound |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 avenue | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peris | det |
| 10 | peris | peris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | conj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dumb | punct |
| 14 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 led | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 amazement | case |
| 16 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dumb | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | a avenue of giant place trees and the peris | Wali | dumb property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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