The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 98
“Oh, on that condition I agree,” answered the deer; “but I am afraid you are a dead man.”
Who acts: deer, you · What happens: agree, answer, be · To what, where: dead man · 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 (deer, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 agree | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 condition | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 condition | det |
| 6 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agree | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deer | det |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 afraid | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answered | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afraid | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present | the deer = deer | on that condition | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on condition=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the deer | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the deer = deer | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | a dead man | tree rules |
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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