The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 101
The stag did as he was bid, though, not being used to climbing, it gave him a deal of trouble and sore knees, and besides, his horns were continually getting entangled in the creepers.
Who acts: climbing · What happens: bid, not use, give, beside, entangle, deal · To what, where: stag, deal, horns, trouble
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 (climbing), 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 | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 7 bid | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 used | advmod |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bid | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 climbing | case |
| 15 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 deal | det |
| 21 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 trouble | case |
| 23 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deal | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 knees | cc |
| 25 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knees | amod |
| 26 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trouble | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 besides | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 besides | cc |
| 29 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 entangled | punct |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 horns | nmod:poss |
| 32 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 entangled | aux |
| 34 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 36 entangled | advmod |
| 35 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 entangled | aux:pass |
| 36 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 besides | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 creepers | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 creepers | det |
| 39 | creepers | creeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 entangled | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past · passive · do-support | the stag | though property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not use | gerund · passive | to climbing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | give | past | climbing | a deal of trouble and sore knees | stag | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient deal=Theme | |||
| 4 | beside | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | entangle | past · progressive · passive | stag's horns | in the creepers; continually property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in creeper=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deal | trouble and sore knees | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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