The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 17
“Fear not,” said one of the peris; “go to your house, and learn that God rewards the simple-hearted.”
Who acts: Fear · What happens: say, go, learn · To what, where: house · 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 (Fear), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fear | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Fear | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fear | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fear | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 peris | nummod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 peris | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peris | det |
| 10 | peris | peris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learn | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learn | cc |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 hearted | mark |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rewards | compound |
| 22 | rewards | reward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hearted | nsubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hearted | det |
| 24 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hearted | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 simple | punct |
| 26 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 learn | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | your house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «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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