The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 8
The woman protested she had not got the knife, so he took the sardine and ran off.
Who acts: woman, work · What happens: protest, not get, take, run off · To what, where: knife, sardine · 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 (woman, work), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protested | nsubj |
| 3 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 protested | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knife | det |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 protested | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sardine | det |
| 15 | sardine | sardine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 ran | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 protested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protest speech: disagree | past | the woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not get | past · perfect | woman | the knife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | work | the sardine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sardine=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run off | past | work not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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