The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 3

He took his hands from before his face, and saw before him two lovely beings whom his instinct told him were not mortal, but were Peris from Paradise.

Who acts: He, instinct, two lovely beings · What happens: take, see, tell, not be, be · To what, where: hands, face, two lovely beings, him, Peris, Paradise · 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 (He, instinct, two lovely beings), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 face	case
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 face	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 beings	nummod
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beings	amod
16	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mortal	nsubj
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 told	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 instinct	nmod:poss
19	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beings	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mortal	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 mortal	advmod
24	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Peris	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 Peris	cc
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Peris	cop
28	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 Paradise	case
30	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Peris	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	He	his hands		his face			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from face=Initial_Location
2	see	past	He not said here				before him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	his instinct	two lovely beings	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient whom=Topic
4	not is	past	two lovely beings					mortal property	tree rules
5	is a	past		Peris		Paradise			tree rules

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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