The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 19
He walked on, thinking still that he must be dreaming.
Who acts: Fear · What happens: walk on, think, dream
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | advcl |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 thinking | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dreaming | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dreaming | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dreaming | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dreaming | aux |
| 11 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thinking | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | Fear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Fear not said here | still | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dream | must · progressive | Fear | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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