The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 51

The tortoise, however, was too young and too busy to admire such things, and he called to the whale to stop, as he wanted to speak to him.

Who acts: tortoise, whale · What happens: be, admire, call, stop, want, speak · To what, where: such things, whale · 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 (tortoise, whale), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 young	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tortoise	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 young	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 young	advmod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 busy	cc
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 busy	advmod
11	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 young	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 admire	mark
13	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 busy	xcomp
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 admire	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 young	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 whale	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 whale	det
22	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stop	mark
24	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 called	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wanted	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 wanted	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stop	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 speak	mark
30	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wanted	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 speak	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tortoise			however, young property	tree rules
2	be		the tortoise not said here				tree rules
3	admire	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here	such things			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	call	past	whale		the whale		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to whale=Recipient
5	stop	to-infinitive	whale not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	want	past	whale				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	whale not said here		whale		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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