The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 68

So he crept from his hiding-place, and dipping himself in the river, he went to the elephant and said: “I see that you really are stronger than I thought.

Who acts: whale, you · What happens: creep, dip, go, say, see, be · To what, where: hiding place, whale, river · 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 (whale, you), 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 crept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 place	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 place	nmod:poss
6	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hiding	punct
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crept	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
11	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 went	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 dipping	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dipping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dipping	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 elephant	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 elephant	det
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 stronger	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 stronger	nsubj
30	really	really	ADV	_	32 stronger	advmod
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 stronger	cop
32	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 see	ccomp
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 thought	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stronger	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	whale		whale's hiding place		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory
2	dip	gerund	whale not said here	whale	the river		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in river=Trajectory
3	go	past	whale			to the elephant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to elephant=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	whale not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see in a quote	present	whale				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	present	you			strong property	tree rules
7	think speech: other in a quote	past	whale				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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