The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 86
One day the puma invited his friend the stag to go with him and see a comrade, who was famous for the good milk he got from his cows.
Who acts: puma, comrade · What happens: invite, go, see, be, get · To what, where: friend, comrade, good milk
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 (puma, comrade), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 puma | det |
| 4 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | nsubj |
| 5 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stag | det |
| 9 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invited | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 invited | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 comrade | det |
| 17 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 famous | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 famous | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 famous | cop |
| 21 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 comrade | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 milk | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 milk | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 milk | amod |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 famous | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 milk | acl:relcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 cows | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 cows | nmod:poss |
| 30 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 got | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | the puma | puma's friend | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the puma not said here | with puma | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | the puma not said here | a comrade | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a comrade | for the good milk; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | past | puma | the good milk not said here | from puma's cows | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from cow=Source |
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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