The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 84
It was a long time before Jack was well enough to go about again; but when he did, he had an encounter with his old enemy the puma.
Who acts: pain, breeze · What happens: be, go about, do, have · To what, where: long time, encounter
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 (pain, breeze), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 Jack | case |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 enough | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enough | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 again | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 did | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 encounter | det |
| 24 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 enemy | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 enemy | amod |
| 28 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 encounter | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 puma | det |
| 30 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 enemy | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pain | a long time | before Jack | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go about | to-infinitive | pain not said here | again | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | breeze | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | breeze | a encounter | with breeze's old enemy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=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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