The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 39
With a mighty spring he grasped a creeper which was hanging above him, and landed himself on the branch of a tree; feeling the breath of the puma on his feet as the animal bounded from is cover.
Who acts: puma, creeper, feeling · What happens: grasp, hang, land, feel, bound, be · To what, where: creeper, puma, branch, breath, feet, animal
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, creeper, feeling), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 spring | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spring | amod |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grasped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grasped | nsubj |
| 6 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creeper | det |
| 8 | creeper | creeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grasped | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 hanging | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hanging | aux |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 creeper | acl:relcl |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hanging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 landed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 landed | cc |
| 16 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grasped | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 landed | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 landed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 feeling | punct |
| 25 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 cover | csubj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 breath | det |
| 27 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feeling | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 puma | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 puma | det |
| 30 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 breath | nmod |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 feet | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 feet | nmod:poss |
| 33 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 feeling | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 animal | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 animal | det |
| 36 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feeling | obl |
| 37 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 animal | acl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 bounded | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 cover | cop |
| 40 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 landed | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | puma | a creeper | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creeper=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hang | past · progressive | a creeper | above puma | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location | ||||
| 3 | land | past | puma not said here | puma | the branch of a tree | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on branch=Destination | |||
| 4 | feel | gerund | the breath of the puma | puma's feet | as the animal | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme on foot=Location | |||
| 5 | bound | participle | the animal not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | feeling | cover | 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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