The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 62
The rabbit, who was young and without experience, was delighted with this idea, and they both set out on their various ways.
Who acts: rabbit, butterflies · What happens: be, set out · To what, where: various ways
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 (rabbit, butterflies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 young | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 young | cop |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rabbit | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 experience | cc |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 experience | case |
| 9 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 young | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rabbit | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delighted | cop |
| 12 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 idea | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 delighted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 delighted | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 ways | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ways | nmod:poss |
| 24 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ways | amod |
| 25 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rabbit | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the rabbit | with this idea; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | present | butterflies = butterfly | butterflies's various ways | both property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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