The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 67

At last they were quite tired, and the tortoise, who was watching, saw that they could play no more.

Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: be, watch, see, play · To what, where: last, more · 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 (Tortoise), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tired	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tortoise	det
10	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 watching	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 watching	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 watching	aux
14	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tortoise	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tortoise	punct
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 play	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 play	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 play	aux
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saw	ccomp
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 play	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tortoise		last	tired property	tree rules
2	watch	past · progressive	the tortoise				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the tortoise				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	play	could	Tortoise	more			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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