The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 44
He left them one day, and walked off in search of adventures.
Who acts: Tale · What happens: leave, walk off, search · To what, where: Tortoise, search, adventures
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 (Tale), 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 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 walked | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 adventures | case |
| 13 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 search | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Tale | Tortoise | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk off | past | Tale not said here | search of adventures | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | search | adventures | nom search «act 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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