The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 45

In a wide open space surrounded by trees he met with an elephant, who was having his supper before taking his evening bath in the river which ran close by.

Who acts: Tale, elephant, river · What happens: surround, meet, have, take, run · To what, where: wide open space, supper, evening bath, river

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, elephant, river), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 space	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 space	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 space	amod
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl
6	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 space	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surrounded	obl:agent
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 elephant	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 elephant	det
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 having	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 having	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 having	aux
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 elephant	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 having	obj
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 taking	mark
21	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 having	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bath	nmod:poss
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bath	compound
24	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taking	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 river	acl:relcl
30	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ran	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	30 close	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surround	participle		a wide open space not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Tale		a wide open space	with a elephant	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elephant=Co-Agent
3	have	past · progressive	a elephant	Tale's supper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
4	take	gerund	a elephant not said here	Tale's evening bath	the river		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bath=Value in river=Location
5	run	past	the river			close property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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