The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 37

And no more there would have been if the puma had had greater patience; but in his excitement he moved a little too soon.

Who acts: puma · What happens: have, move, excite · To what, where: puma, little, excitement

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 (puma), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
2	no	no	ADV	_	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 had	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 more	advmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 had	aux:pass
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 puma	det
10	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 patience	amod
14	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 moved	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 moved	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 excitement	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 excitement	nmod:poss
19	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moved	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moved	nsubj
21	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moved	obl:unmarked
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 moved	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect · passive		the puma			tree rules
2	move	past	puma	a little	puma's excitement	soon property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory
3	excite		puma				nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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