The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 96
The stag thought the question so silly that he only shrugged his shoulders.
Who acts: stag · What happens: think, shrug · To what, where: question, shoulders
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 (stag), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 silly | advmod |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 shrugged | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shrugged | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 shrugged | advmod |
| 11 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 silly | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shrugged | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the stag | the question | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shrug | past | stag | stag's shoulders | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |
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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