The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 31
Besides the great dinners, there were sports and hunting, and dances, and amusements of all sorts.
Who acts: sports · What happens: be, amuse · To what, where: sorts
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 (sports), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 4 dinners | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dinners | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dinners | amod |
| 4 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dinners | conj |
| 8 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hunting | cc |
| 10 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sports | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dances | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dances | cc |
| 13 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dinners | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 amusements | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 amusements | cc |
| 16 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dinners | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sorts | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sorts | det |
| 19 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 amusements | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinners | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | sports and hunting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | amuse | all sorts | nom amusement «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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