The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 24
“Oh, leave me my child, and I will find you another barrel of meal,” wept the mother.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: leave, find, weep · To what, where: monkey, you, mother · 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 (monkey), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 leave | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wept | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 barrel | det |
| 15 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meal | case |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 barrel | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 20 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mother | det |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | infinitive | the monkey = monkey | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme child=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | the monkey = monkey | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme barrel=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | the mother | 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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