The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 73

A day or two later the young tortoise was taking a stroll, when he met a fox, and stopped to speak to him.

Who acts: day, man · What happens: take, meet, stop, speak · To what, where: stroll, fox, man · 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 (day, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	conj
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 taking	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tortoise	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tortoise	amod
8	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taking	aux
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stroll	det
12	stroll	stroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 met	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 met	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taking	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fox	det
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stopped	cc
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 met	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 speak	mark
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stopped	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speak	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	a day	a stroll		late property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroll=Theme
2	meet	past	man	a fox			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent
3	stop	past	man not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here		man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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