The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 36

[Told the author by an Indian.]

What happens: tell · To what, where: author · 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: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 Told	punct
2	Told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 author	det
4	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Told	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Indian	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Indian	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Told	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Told	punct
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 Told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		the author				by a Indian	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent author=Recipient

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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