The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 37
Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey
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 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Tortoise | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Tortoise | det |
| 4 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tale | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Monkey | cc |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Monkey | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Monkey | det |
| 8 | Mischievous | Mischievous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Monkey | compound |
| 9 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Tortoise | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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