The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 53
The whale looked at him, sent up another fountain, and answered: “Oh, yes; certainly.
Who acts: whale · What happens: look, send up, answer · To what, where: fountain
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 (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 whale | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 sent | compound:prt |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 fountain | det |
| 10 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 answered | cc |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 yes | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 yes | punct |
| 16 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 yes | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Oh | punct |
| 18 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 answered | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 yes | punct |
| 20 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 18 yes | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the whale | at elephant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send up | participle | another fountain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality |
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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