The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 65
When the whale pulled hardest the elephant was dragged into the water; and when the elephant pulled the hardest the whale was hauled on to the land.
Who acts: whale, elephant · What happens: pull, drag, haul on · To what, where: hardest, elephant, water, hardest whale, land
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 pulled | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 elephant | det |
| 7 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dragged | aux:pass |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pulled | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pulled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulled | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulled | nsubj |
| 18 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 whale | det |
| 20 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 whale | amod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 whale | det |
| 22 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hauled | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hauled | aux:pass |
| 24 | hauled | haul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pulled | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hauled | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hauled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the whale | hardest | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past · passive | the elephant | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | the elephant | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | haul on | past · passive | the hardest whale | the land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to land=Destination |
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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