The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 2
Surely morning was not already coming to hasten and reveal his disgrace!
Who acts: his · What happens: not come, hasten, reveal, disgrace · To what, where: disgrace
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 (his), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 coming | advmod |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 coming | advmod |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hasten | mark |
| 8 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 coming | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reveal | cc |
| 10 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hasten | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 disgrace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reveal | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · progressive | morning | surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | reveal | infinitive | his disgrace | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disgrace=Topic | |||||
| 4 | disgrace | his = he | nom disgrace «state transitive»: poss=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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