The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 46
This finished, he ran to the pool to see the result, and, quite pleased with himself, set out in search of adventures.
Who acts: This, puma · What happens: finish, run, see, set out, search · To what, where: result, search, adventures
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 finished | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pool | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pool | det |
| 8 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 result | det |
| 12 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 finished | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 pleased | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pleased | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 search | case |
| 24 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 adventures | case |
| 26 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 search | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | This | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | past | puma | to the pool result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pool=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | puma not said here | the result | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer result=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | set out | participle | This not said here | search of adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | search | adventures | nom search «act 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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