The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 60

“I will fasten this to your leg,” said he, “in the same way as it is fastened to mine, and we must both pull as hard as we can.

Who acts: whale, same way, we · What happens: fasten, say, pull · To what, where: this, way, 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 (whale, same way, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 fasten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fasten	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fasten	aux
4	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fasten	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 leg	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leg	nmod:poss
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fasten	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fasten	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fasten	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 fastened	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fastened	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fastened	aux:pass
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 way	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 mine	case
24	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fastened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pull	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pull	cc
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 pull	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 pull	aux
29	both	both	ADV	_	30 pull	advmod
30	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 hard	advmod
32	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 pull	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 can	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 can	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hard	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fasten in a quote	future	whale	this		to your leg	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent this=Patient to leg=Co-Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	whale				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fasten in a quote	present · passive	the same way not said here	way	whale		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to my=Co-Patient
4	pull in a quote	must	we			both, hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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