The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 64

The whale tugged at one end, and the elephant tugged at the other, and neither had any idea that he had not the tortoise for his foe.

Who acts: whale, elephant, neither · What happens: tug, have · To what, where: idea, 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, elephant, neither), 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 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tugged	nsubj
3	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 end	nummod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tugged	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tugged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tugged	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tugged	nsubj
11	tugged	tug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tugged	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 other	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tugged	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tugged	conj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tortoise	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tortoise	det
26	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 foe	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 foe	nmod:poss
29	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tortoise	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tugged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tug	past	the whale		at one end		vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at end=Theme
2	tug	participle	the elephant			at the other	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at other=Theme
3	have	past	neither	any idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	have	past	whale	the tortoise		for whale's foe	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=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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