The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 94
One day, when he was basking in the sun, a stag passed by, and stopped for a little conversation.
Who acts: person · What happens: bask, pass by, stop · To what, where: sun, stag
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 (person), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 basking | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 basking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 basking | aux |
| 7 | basking | bask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stopped | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stag | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stag | det |
| 13 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sun | conj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stag | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stopped | cc |
| 18 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 conversation | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 conversation | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 conversation | amod |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stopped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bask | past · progressive | person | the sun and a stag | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pass by | participle | a stag not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | day | for a little conversation | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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