The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 1

As he was making his way to his own particular palm-tree, where the cocoanuts grew, which were so useful for pelting passers-by, he met a woman who was scaling a fish with a bit of wood, for in this side of the forest a few people lived in huts near the river.

Who acts: he, cocoanuts, own particular palm tree, woman · What happens: make, grow, be, pelt, meet, scale · To what, where: way, passers, woman, fish, huts

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, cocoanuts, own particular palm tree, woman), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 making	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 lived	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	13 tree	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tree	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
10	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
11	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 palm	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 grew	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cocoanuts	det
17	cocoanuts	cocoanut	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tree	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 useful	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 useful	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 useful	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 useful	advmod
23	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	conj
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 pelting	mark
25	pelting	pelt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 useful	advcl
26	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pelting	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 passers	punct
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 met	mark
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 by	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 met	nsubj
31	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pelting	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 met	obj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 scaling	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 scaling	aux
36	scaling	scale	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 woman	acl:relcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fish	det
38	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 scaling	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 bit	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bit	det
41	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 scaling	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 wood	case
43	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bit	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 side	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 side	case
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 side	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 side	det
48	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 forest	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 forest	det
51	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 side	nmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 people	det
53	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 people	amod
54	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
55	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
56	in	in	ADP	_	57 huts	case
57	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 lived	obl
58	near	near	ADP	_	60 river	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 river	det
60	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lived	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	he	his way			to his own particular palm tree; for this side of the forest	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Beneficiary people=Product for side=Asset
2	grow	past	the cocoanuts					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	his own particular palm tree				useful property	tree rules
4	pelt	gerund	his own particular palm tree not said here		passers			vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passer=Destination
5	meet	past	he	a woman				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
6	scale	past · progressive	a woman	a fish			with a bit of wood	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Source
7	live	past				huts	near the river	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

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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