The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 86

Now it was the fox’s turn, and he chose his hole, and the tortoise heaped the earth round, promising to return every day or two with a nice young bird for his dinner.

Who acts: hole, fox, tortoise · What happens: be, choose, heap, promise, return · To what, where: turn, hole, earth

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 (hole, fox, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 fox	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chose	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chose	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chose	nsubj
11	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hole	nmod:poss
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chose	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heaped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heaped	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tortoise	det
17	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heaped	nsubj
18	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chose	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heaped	obj
21	round	round	ADV	_	18 heaped	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promising	punct
23	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 heaped	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 return	mark
25	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 promising	xcomp
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 return	obl:unmarked
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 two	cc
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 bird	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bird	det
32	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bird	amod
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bird	amod
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 return	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 dinner	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 dinner	nmod:poss
37	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 return	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hole	the fox's turn	now		tree rules
2	choose	past	fox	fox's hole			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	heap	past	the tortoise	the earth		round property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	gerund	the tortoise not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here		day	with a nice young bird; for fox's dinner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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