The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 92
By this time the tortoise was grown up, and was looked up to throughout the forest as a person to be feared for his strength and wisdom.
What happens: grow up, look up, throughout, fear · To what, where: tortoise, forest
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grown | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tortoise | det |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grown | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grown | aux:pass |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | aux:pass |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grown | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 throughout | case |
| 15 | throughout | throughout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 looked | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 throughout | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 throughout | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 feared | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 feared | aux:pass |
| 23 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 person | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 strength | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 strength | nmod:poss |
| 26 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feared | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wisdom | cc |
| 28 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strength | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · passive | the tortoise | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look up | past · passive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» | ||||||
| 3 | throughout | infinitive | the forest | as a person | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive · passive | for person's strength and wisdom | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for strength=Attribute |
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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