The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 17
“Here is something to make cakes for the children,” he said, putting down his barrel, which by this time he found rather heavy.
Who acts: fish · What happens: be, make, say, put down, find · To what, where: something, cakes, barrel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fish), 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 | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 something | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 said | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | acl |
| 7 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 putting | punct |
| 16 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 putting | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 barrel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 putting | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 found | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 barrel | acl:relcl |
| 27 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 28 heavy | advmod |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 found | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | something | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | cakes | for the children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | put down | gerund | fish's barrel | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent barrel=Goal | |||||
| 5 | find | past | fish | fish's barrel | time | heavy property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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