The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 41
Up there in the shelter of the trees, he began to turn over in his head plans for escaping the snares of the puma.
Who acts: puma · What happens: begin, turn over, escape, plan, snare · To what, where: head plans, snares, puma
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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 began | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 shelter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shelter | det |
| 5 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 there | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shelter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 turn | mark |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 turn | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 plans | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 plans | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plans | compound |
| 18 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turn | obl |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 escaping | mark |
| 20 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 turn | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snares | det |
| 22 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 escaping | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 puma | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 puma | det |
| 25 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 snares | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | puma | there | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | turn over | to-infinitive | puma not said here | puma's head plans | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | escape | gerund | puma not said here | the snares of the puma | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snare=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | plan | puma | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | snare | the puma | nom snare «cognition 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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