The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 53
On his way to breakfast he met a rabbit, and stopped for a little talk.
Who acts: parrot · What happens: meet, stop · To what, where: rabbit, way
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 (parrot), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 breakfast | case |
| 5 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rabbit | det |
| 9 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | cc |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 talk | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 talk | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 talk | amod |
| 16 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stopped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | parrot | a rabbit | parrot's way to breakfast | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | stop | past | parrot not said here | for a little talk | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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