The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 63

“Now!” cried he, plunging into a thick bush behind him.

What happens: cry, plunge · To what, where: whale, thick bush

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: 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cried	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plunging	punct
8	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 bush	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bush	det
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bush	amod
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plunging	obl
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 plunging	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		whale			now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	plunge	gerund				a thick bush		behind whale	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location

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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