The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 59
The tortoise picked up the end of the bone in his mouth and went back to the elephant.
Who acts: tortoise · What happens: pick up, go back · To what, where: end, mouth
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), 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 | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 elephant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the tortoise | the end of the bone | whale's mouth | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Topic | |||
| 2 | go back | past | the tortoise not said here | to the elephant result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to elephant=Result |
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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