The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 96

After resting for a few minutes, to let the stag recover from his fright, they went on their way till they came to a grove of bananas.

Who acts: bridges, stag · What happens: rest, let, recover, go, come, fright · To what, where: stag, fright, way, grove

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 (bridges, stag), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 resting	mark
2	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 went	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minutes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	amod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 resting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 resting	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stag	det
11	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
12	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 fright	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fright	nmod:poss
15	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recover	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 resting	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 way	nmod:poss
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 grove	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 grove	det
27	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 bananas	case
29	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grove	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rest	gerund	bridges = bridge not said here			minute	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	to-infinitive	bridges = bridge not said here	the stag			tree rules
3	recover	infinitive	the stag not said here		stag's fright		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fright=Source
4	go	past	bridges = bridge		bridges's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
5	come	past	bridges = bridge		a grove of bananas		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial_Location
6	fright		stag				nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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