The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 39

Hardly any men came there, and the wild creatures had it all to themselves, and used to play all sorts of strange games with each other.

Who acts: men, wild creatures · What happens: come, have, use, play, sort · To what, where: country, creatures, sorts, strange games

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 (men, wild creatures), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creatures	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creatures	amod
10	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 it	det
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 used	cc
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 play	mark
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 used	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 sorts	det
22	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 play	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 games	case
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 games	amod
25	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sorts	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 each	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 games	nmod
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 each	fixed
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	any men			there	hardly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the wild creatures	country	creatures = creature			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	use	participle	any men not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	any men not said here	all sorts of strange games with each				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
5	sort			strange games with each				nom sort «cognition 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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