The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 47
“Very well,” replied the elephant, much amused at the impertinence of the little creature; “when would you like the trial to be?”
Who acts: elephant, you · What happens: reply, amuse, like · To what, where: elephant, impertinence, trial · 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: who acts (elephant, you), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elephant | det |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amused | punct |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 amused | advmod |
| 11 | amused | amuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 elephant | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 impertinence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 impertinence | det |
| 14 | impertinence | impertinence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amused | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 creature | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creature | amod |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 impertinence | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 like | advmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 like | nsubj |
| 24 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trial | det |
| 26 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 like | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 be | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 trial | acl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 like | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | the elephant | well property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | amuse | participle | the elephant not said here | the impertinence of the little creature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | you | the trial | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trial=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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