The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 85

So the seven years went by; and when the tortoise came out of his hole he was as fat as ever.

Who acts: seven years, tortoise, fox · What happens: go by, come out, be · To what, where: hole

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 (seven years, tortoise, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 went	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tortoise	det
11	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 hole	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hole	nmod:poss
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fat	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fat	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 fat	advmod
20	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hole	acl:relcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 ever	case
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 fat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go by	past	the seven years			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	the tortoise	fox's hole		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
3	is	past	fox	fox's hole not said here	fat property	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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