The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 95
“You had a narrow escape that time,” said the puma.
Who acts: You, puma · What happens: have, say · To what, where: narrow escape · 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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 escape | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 escape | amod |
| 6 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escape | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 puma | det |
| 13 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | a narrow escape | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the puma | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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