The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 62
So he wound it carefully round the elephant’s leg, and tied it in a firm knot.
Who acts: whale · What happens: woun, tie · To what, where: way, firm knot
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wound | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | nsubj |
| 3 | wound | woun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wound | obj |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 wound | advmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 leg | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elephant | det |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leg | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 elephant | case |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tied | cc |
| 13 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wound | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tied | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 knot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knot | det |
| 17 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knot | amod |
| 18 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun | past | whale | way | round the elephant's leg; carefully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tie | past | whale not said here | way | a firm knot | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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