The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 79

The fox so far kept his word that each morning when the sun rose he appeared to ask how the tortoise was getting on.

Who acts: fox, word, tortoise · What happens: keep, rise, appear, ask, get on, word · To what, where: word · 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 (fox, word, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 rose	nsubj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	obl:unmarked
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 rose	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rose	nsubj
14	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 word	acl:relcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 appeared	nsubj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rose	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ask	mark
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 appeared	xcomp
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 getting	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tortoise	det
21	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 getting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 getting	aux
23	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ask	ccomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 getting	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the fox	fox's word		far property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	rise	past	fox's word		morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appear	past	fox				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	fox not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get on	past · progressive	the tortoise				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	word		fox				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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