The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 89

The stag was not fond of swimming, and began to say that he was tired, and thought that after all it was not worth going so far to get milk, and that he would return home.

Who acts: stag, swimming · What happens: not be, begin, say, be, think, go · To what, where: milk · 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 (stag, swimming), 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 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 swimming	case
7	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tired	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tired	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 worth	mark
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 worth	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 worth	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 worth	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 worth	advmod
26	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thought	ccomp
27	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 worth	xcomp
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 far	advmod
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 going	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 going	advcl
32	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 return	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 return	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 return	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 return	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 return	aux
38	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fond	parataxis
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 return	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the stag			of swimming; fond property	tree rules
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	stag			tired property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	swimming		after all	worth property	tree rules
7	go	gerund	swimming not said here			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	to-infinitive	swimming not said here	milk			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus
9	return	would	stag			home 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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