The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 58
“Very good,” replied the whale; and he took out one of his bones and passed it to the tortoise.
Who acts: whale · What happens: reply, take out, pass · To what, where: one, hardest, tortoise
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bones | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tortoise | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tortoise | det |
| 23 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the whale | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take out | past | whale | one of whale's bones | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | whale not said here | hardest = hard | the tortoise | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tortoise=Recipient |
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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