The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 49

And if they made any inquiries the only answer they got was that the water of which he had drunk deeply had turned his hair into leaves, so that they all knew what would happen in case they became too greedy.

Who acts: beast, Thanks · What happens: make, get, drink, turn, know, happen · To what, where: inquiries, only answer, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (beast, Thanks), 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	_	4 made	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 inquiries	det
6	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 answer	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj:pass
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	acl:relcl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	aux:pass
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 turned	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj:pass
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drunk	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 drunk	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drunk	aux
20	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 water	acl:relcl
21	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	20 drunk	advmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	aux
23	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 leaves	case
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 turned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knew	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 knew	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 they	det
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 happen	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 happen	aux
36	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 knew	ccomp
37	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 became	mark
38	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 in	fixed
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 became	nsubj
40	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happen	advcl
41	too	too	ADV	_	42 greedy	advmod
42	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 became	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	beast	any inquiries			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product
2	get	past	beast	the only answer not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
3	drink	past · perfect	Thanks			of the water; deeply property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source
4	turn	past · perfect · passive		the only answer	leaves		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme hair=Result
5	know	past	beast				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	become	past	beast			greedy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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