The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 23

He told Wali Dâd that he had not slept all night, and by the first streak of daylight had started to seek out his friend.

Who acts: Fear · What happens: tell, not sleep, start, seek out · To what, where: Wali, friend · 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wali	flat
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 slept	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 slept	advmod
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 started	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 started	cc
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 streak	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streak	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 streak	amod
17	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 daylight	case
19	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 streak	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 started	aux
21	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seek	mark
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 started	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 seek	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Fear		Wali			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wali=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not sleep	past · perfect	Fear			night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	past · perfect					by the first streak of daylight	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	seek out	to-infinitive		Fear's friend				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/35/23/