The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 70

Then he dried himself on some moss and went to the whale and said: “I see that you really are stronger than I thought.

Who acts: whale, you · What happens: dry, go, say, see, be, think · To what, where: whale, moss · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dried	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dried	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 moss	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 moss	det
7	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 whale	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whale	det
12	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dried	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stronger	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 stronger	nsubj
21	really	really	ADV	_	23 stronger	advmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stronger	cop
23	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 see	ccomp
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 thought	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stronger	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past	whale	whale	some moss	then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result
2	go	past	whale not said here				to the whale	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to whale=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	whale not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	present	whale					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present	you				strong property	tree rules
6	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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