The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 57
When I give the signal, you must pull, and we will see which can pull the hardest.”
Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: give, pull, see · To what, where: signal, hardest
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 (I, you, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 give | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 signal | det |
| 5 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 pull | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | aux |
| 9 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pull | advcl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pull | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pull | aux |
| 17 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hardest | det |
| 19 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 pull | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pull | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | the signal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | must | you | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pull | can | the hardest | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=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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