The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 9

Then the first stepped forward and laid a hand upon his shoulder, and Wali Dâd began to feel that something strange—what, he did not know—was happening to him.

Who acts: first, Wali · What happens: step forward, lay, begin, feel, not know, happen · To what, where: hand, shoulder, Wali · 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 (first, Wali), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 first	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 stepped	nsubj
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 stepped	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laid	cc
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hand	det
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulder	nmod:poss
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
15	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
16	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wali	flat
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 feel	mark
19	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 feel	obl
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 that	fixed
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 something	amod
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 know	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 something	conj
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 happening	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 happening	aux
32	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 know	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 happening	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step forward	past	the first				then	forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	the first not said here	a hand		Wali's shoulder			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon shoulder=Destination
3	begin	past	Wali						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive	Wali not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	not know	past · do-support	Wali						tree rules
6	happen	past · progressive			Wali				vn occur-48.3-1 «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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