The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 94
As it was, he scrambled out, shaking with terror, and found the puma waiting for him.
Who acts: current, stag, puma · What happens: be, scramble out, shake, find, wait · To what, where: puma
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 (current, stag, puma), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scrambled | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scrambled | nsubj |
| 6 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 scrambled | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaking | punct |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 scrambled | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 terror | case |
| 11 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scrambled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 puma | det |
| 16 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 puma | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 waiting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | current | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | scramble out | past | stag | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | stag not said here | with terror | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with terror=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | stag not said here | the puma | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puma=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | the puma not said here | for stag | vn exist-47.1 «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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