The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 43
Peeping down to the earth, he saw a man coming along the path carrying on his head a large gourd filled with honey.
Who acts: puma, man, path · What happens: peep down, see, come, carry, fill · To what, where: man, path, large gourd, head
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, man, path), 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 | Peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | advcl |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Peeping | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 earth | det |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Peeping | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peeping | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 15 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 path | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gourd | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gourd | amod |
| 21 | gourd | gourd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carrying | obj |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 gourd | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 honey | case |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep down | gerund | puma not said here | to the earth; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | puma | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a man not said here | the path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the path not said here | a large gourd | puma's head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gourd=Theme | |||
| 5 | fill | participle | a large gourd not said here | with honey | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with honey=Instrument |
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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