The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 5
“I have called for my razor,” he said, when the woman appeared.
Who acts: work, woman · What happens: call, say, appear · 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 (work, woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 razor | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 razor | nmod:poss |
| 7 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present · perfect | work | for my razor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for razor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | work | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | the woman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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