The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 76

“It is all the same to me,” replied the tortoise; “if you come round this way to-morrow you will see that I have fulfilled my part of the bargain.”

Who acts: battle, tortoise, you, fox · What happens: be, reply, come round, see, fulfil · To what, where: tortoise, way, morrow, part · 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 (battle, tortoise, you, fox), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 same	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 same	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 same	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 same	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tortoise	det
13	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	advcl
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl:unmarked
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 morrow	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 same	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 fulfilled	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fulfilled	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fulfilled	aux
31	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 see	ccomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 part	nmod:poss
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fulfilled	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 bargain	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bargain	det
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 part	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	battle		the tortoise = tortoise		same property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the tortoise					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come round a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	this way		morrow	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location
4	see in a quote	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fulfil in a quote	present · perfect	the fox = fox	my part of the bargain				tree rules

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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